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married December 17, 1881. Mrs. Stark yet lives in the family homestead which she maintains in most ex- cellent and pleasing taste. Upon its walls are hung various oil paintings, the creations of her husband, who displayed a tact and ability with the brush that were more than ordinary in their scope. Mrs. Stark is also the fortunate possessor of many household articles that were once owned by General Stark.
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FREDERICK W. DORING
FREDERICK W. DORING.
Frederick W. Doring, principal of the Concord high school, is a native of Perry, Me. He fitted for college at the Boynton high school, Eastport, Me., where he was graduated with valedictory honors in the class of 1879. A four years' course at Dartmouth college immediately followed, and in 1883 Mr. Doring received his diploma and degree from that splendid New Hampshire institu- tion. At Hanover he ranked as one of the best scholars in his class, being a member of Phi Beta Kappa and receiving the honor of an English oration in the com- mencement exercises.
During the year following his graduation Mr. Doring was principal of the Brooks school at Eastport, Me. From there he went to Newmarket, N. H., where he labored successfully for four years as principal of the high school. Farmington, N. H., next called him to its high school, and there he remained five years. In 1893 he went to Woonsocket, R. I., as principal of the city high school, one of the largest public schools in the state and one which, under his direction, advanced to the very front rank in New England educational prestige.
Coincident with this steady rise to the top of the ladder in his profession, and doubtless a partial explana- tion of his success, Mr. Doring has done an unusually large amount of graduate work; studying chemistry at . Dartmouth, psychology and pedagogy at Clark Univer-
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sity, chemistry, physics and history at Harvard, and history at Brown University.
Both in New Hampshire and in Rhode Island Mr. Doring has been a leader among his associates in educational work and has been much in demand as a speaker at teachers' institutes. He served in 1899 as president of the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction and as president of the Woonsocket teachers' associa- tion. Since his return to New Hampshire he has been prominent in the State teachers' association and has been instrumental in the organization of an association of high school principals, of which he has been elected secretary.
He is also a member of the Barnard club (the school- masters' club of Rhode Island), the Massachusetts high school masters' club, the New England history teachers' association, and the Harvard teachers' association.
Mr. Doring is married and has one child, a daughter. He is a Mason and a Knight Templar, and attends the Universalist church.
He always allies himself actively with the best interests of the community in which he resides and as a citizen as well as an educator counts materially on the right side in whatever affects the municipal life.
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WILLIAM H. ROLLINS
WILLIAM H. ROLLINS.
One of the most venerable and highly esteemed citi- zens of Portsmouth, and of New Hampshire for that matter, is William H. Rollins, who in this year of 1903 is an octogenarian, but as well preserved a man, in as good health, as buoyant in spirit, and with as clear an intellect as most men a decade or more his junior in years.
He was born in Portsmouth September 7, 1822. His father belonged to that ancestral family from which the town of Rollinsford took its name, and was born there in 1790. In 1813 the senior Mr. Rollins removed to Portsmouth and made it his home ever after, as his son, William H., has all of his, having lived since nine years of age in his present residence.
His father was a prosperous merchant and closely identified with the progress of Portsmouth for many year's. As was natural, the son 'has maintained his father's interest in the city and has been favored by it with many offices of trust and responsibility. His moth- er was Mary A. Hooker, and to his parents were born two other sons and two daughters, both of the latter dying within five years of birth.
Early deciding upon a professional career, the son, William H., after a most thorough preparatory course, entered Harvard University and completed the pre- scribed course and upon graduation he at once entered upon the study of law. Obtaining admission to the bar of New Hampshire he began practice in his native city in
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1844. Active, energetic, courageous, and public spirited the young practitioner soon attained to positions of honor and responsibility. He became the president of the Portsmouth savings bank and retained the position until his resignation in 1894. For full thirty years he was a director of the National Merchants and Traders bank of Portsmouth.
From 1850 to 1869 he held the dual offices of secretary and treasurer of the Portsmouth Atheneum, and again from 1894 to 1903 he held the same positions. He was also, in the '7os, president of the same corporation for some four or five years. For nine years he was a mem- ber of the school committee in his home city, and has likewise served as a member of the state legislature
He was married in Portsmouth, January 2, 1879, to Miss Elizabeth Ball. That there may yet be in store for him many happy and useful years is the wish of all in his native Portsmouth.
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M. E. KEAN, M. D.
In the personality and characteristics of M. E. Kean, M. D., the student of human nature finds a delightful study which deepens in interest and pleasure the longer it is followed and considered. His is a genial and sunny disposition and an unvarying nature as to natural moods. At the same time he never borders upon the frivolous, but is, on the contrary, the soul of sincerity and reality. It is his rare good fortune to adapt himself to the ever- changing conditions and circumstances of life, and in the possession of this happy faculty is doubtless due, in large measure, his brilliant professional and general success in life.
The parents of Dr. Kean were Michael and Mary (Nicholson) Kean. Both were natives of Ireland, but both emigrated to America in their childhood years and settled in Manchester, which city has remained to the present (1903) their home. The senior Kean became an esteemed citizen of his adopted city, and in his younger days was extensively engaged in the team work con- nected with the construction of various among the mills of Manchester. It was while he had a temporary residence in Bedford, across the river from Manchester, that his son, the subject of this sketch, was born, on June 28, 1863. The school life of the son was passed in the Park Street school, Thomas Corcoran, principal, and was supplemented by a course in the commercial school of William H. Heron. Leaving school he next
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entered upon an apprenticeship to the machinist's trade, and ere long he was combining with this studies in me- chanical engineering, for his whole manifest predilection was to mechanics, and if it be true, as is often asserted, that to be a good physician or surgeon one must have a native bent for mechanics, it was but natural that young Kean should drift into the study of physics and surgery, and this he did.
At first his professional studies were under the private tutorage of the late George C. Hoitt, M. D., of Manchester. From his private studies he entered the medical school of Dartmouth College, where his scholar- ship and innate aptitude soon placed him at the head of his class, a position he maintained to the end, for he was valedictorian of his class upon graduation in November, 1888.
Since obtaining his diploma he has served as house surgeon of the famed Carney Hospital in Boston, Mass., and is an ex-president of the alumni association of that institution.
Locating in Manchester he has from the beginning achieved a most flattering success, and is not only esteemed for his ability as a physician and surgeon, but for those qualities that go to make the genuine man.
He is a member of the Massachusetts state medical society, the New Hampshire state medical society, and of the Manchester medical society, of which last he is a former president. Since the institution of the Sacred Heart Hospital, Manchester, which was in 1893, Dr. Kean has served as a member of the staff of surgeons, has officiated as secretary of the staff, and at present is the senior surgeon of the hospital. In 1891 he married Miss Elizabeth E. Ward of West Lebanon, and they have one child, Ruth Elizabeth Arnoldine.
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IRA JOSLIN PROUTY, M. D.
Ira Joslin Prouty, M. D., Keene, N. H. Son of Dr. Ira French and Elsie Joslin Prouty, was born August 15, 1857, at Ogdensburgh, N. Y. Received his education in the public schools of Keene, graduating from the high school in 1875. Following this he took a special course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; entered upon the study of medicine, graduating from the Medical De- partment of the University of New York in 1882.
He began at once the practice of his profession in Keene. Since his graduation he has done postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins hospital at Baltimore and in the hospitals of Boston and New York. He spent the years 1893-4 with some of the leading surgeons and at the surgical centres of Great Britain and on the continent.
He is a member of the American medical association, being a member of the House of Delegates 1902-1903. Member of the New Hampshire medical society; Ex- President of the New Hampshire surgical society; Ex- President of the Connecticut valley medical association and the Cheshire county medical society and also Keene natural history society. Was a member of the Board of education 1883-1889; city physician 1884-1886; board of health 1884-1885, a member of the original staff of the Elliott city hospital, 1892, and of the first board of trustees.
Has contributed to medical journals and presented a number of papers before the various medical societies, mostly upon surgical topics.
In 1882 he married Marietta, eldest daughter of John Humphrey of Keene, who died in 1894 leaving one son, Ira Humphrey Prouty.
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WILLIAM H. NUTE, M. D.
William H. Nute, M. D., of Exeter, was born in Farm- ington May 8, 1858, the son of Charles W. and Mary L. (Richardson) Nute. He was graduated from the high school of his native town and pursued his studies at the New Hampton institution, going for his professional training to Bellevue, New York city, and the Bow- doin Medical school, Brunswick, Me., where he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1881. He immediately entered upon the practice of his profession in his native town, and remained there until 1891, when despite the marked success which had fol- lowed him in Farmington he determined to make the hazard of new fortunes and removed to Exeter. In his new location Dr. Nute was equally prosperous and suc- cessful, and he almost immediately entered upon a prac- tice which has now grown to be one of the largest in central Rockingham county.
Dr. Nute was one of the first to recognize Exeter's need of hospital accommodations, and largely through his efforts the Exeter cottage hospital was established to which he gives a large measure of his time.
Dr. Nute keeps thoroughly abreast with all the prog- ress of his profession, and annually spends a large amount of time in the hospitals of Boston perfecting himself in all the latest discoveries of modern medical science. In addi- tion to the exacting cares of a large general practice, Dr. Nute is a medical examiner for the Ancient Order of
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United Workmen, as well as for all the leading insurance companies which do business in his section. He is presi- dent of the Strafford district medical society, Fellow of the American Medical association, member of the New Hampshire Surgical club, and of the New Hampshire Medical society. He has been prominent also in various secret fraternities and is a 33d degree Mason, having served as master of his lodge and past district deputy grand master. He has also passed the chairs in the Odd- Fellows and is a member of the Knights of Pythias. He is Past Sachem of the Improved Order of Red Men, this being the highest office in the gift of the order in the state. He is also a member of the Foresters of America.
Dr. Nute married Miss Lucy Read, a daughter of one of the oldest and best known families in Exeter, and has one son, Norwood Read. He is a Republican in poli- tics, a member of the Board of Health of Exeter, and attends the Unitarian church.
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F. S. TOWLE, M. D.
In the very front rank of the young medical men of the state is F. S. Towle, M. D., of Portsmouth, who was born in the city of Boston, December 28, 1863, but who is rightfully considered as belonging to New Hampshire, because he has given her nearly a decade out of the best part of his life. He was educated in the schools of his native city, but was not satisfied with this equipment for life and determined to become a professional man. At the Columbia Medical college he worked his way through, graduating with credit and receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Later he took a post-graduate course, thereby perfecting and extending his knowledge along certain important lines.
His first location for the practice of his profession was in Boston, but in 1894 he removed to Portsmouth, where he has since been located, having established a large prac- tice and a splendid reputation for knowledge, skill and competence. One evidence of this is the frequency with which he is called into consultation by his fellow physi- cians in cases of unusual gravity and difficulty.
Doctor Towle is a member of the American medical association; of the New Hampshire state medical society; of the Strafford medical association; of the Rockingham county association; of the Portsmouth medical associa- tion; and is a fellow of the American electro-therapeutics.
Of a social disposition and deservedly popular and prominent in fraternal circles, Dr. Towle is a member of
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the Knights Templar, of the I. O. O. F., of the Knights of Pythias, and other organizations. He is a Republican in politics and has served his city efficiently as chairman of the board of health and as member of the school board. He has also been honored by appointment as surgeon- general on the staff of the governor of the state.
He married Miss Martha H. Perry of Boston, Mass., and they have one son, a student in the Portsmouth High school.
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E. L. GLICK.
E. L. Glick, proprietor and principal of the National School of Business, Concord, New Hampshire, is a native of Michigan, and was born in 1867. At the completion of his school days he became a teacher in his native state, holding positions in the cities of Grand Rapids and De- troit. Being attracted to the study of stenography Mr. Glick perfected himself in this branch and became a court reporter, discharging his duties with signal ability in the two cities named above until his removal after several years to Cleveland, Ohio, where he became a teacher in a large business college. From Cleveland Mr. Glick made his way east and settled in Lowell, where he was engaged in teaching commercial science for several years. In 1898, he came to Concord, where he purchased and con- solidated two small struggling business colleges then ex- isting in the city, and upon this basis has built up in the National School of Business one of the largest and most successful of commercial colleges in the East. Mr. Glick's students come from nearly all of the Eastern states and his roll of pupils now numbers more than one hundred. The school is finely located in one of the principal busi- ness blocks in Concord, occupying an entire floor, which is specially equipped with apparatus designed to give an insight into all branches of commercial knowledge. Ac- tual business from the start is the watchword of Mr. Glick's school, and his pupils are favored from the begin- ning of their studies with an opportunity to learn by
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practice the actual procedure of modern commercial life.
In addition to the training of clerks, accountants and stenographers common to most commercial colleges, the National School of Business is especially equipped for the training of teachers for business colleges, and in this line its success has been very marked. Many of Mr. Glick's pupils have gone from his school to lucrative positions in other business colleges where by the introduction of the methods which have made the National School of Busi- ness so successful they have carried on the good work in sending out thoroughly trained and practised students for the manifold duties growing out of the varying and ex- acting commercial life of to-day.
Mr. Glick in addition to being thoroughly familiar with all the branches forming the curriculum of the school and thus being enabled to have a close and practical oversight of all the work done in the school, is a penman of re- markable versatility and skill. The pages of the National Penman, the recognized organ of penmanship in America, have been adorned in successive numbers for many years with reproductions of Mr. Glick's work, both in handwrit- ing and the more ornate branches of penmanship, and many of the prizes offered by that journal for the finest work in penmanship have fallen into Mr. Glick's hands as a result of the competitions thus set on foot.
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HENRY DeWOLFE CARVELLE, M. D.
Henry DeWolfe Carvelle, M. D., was born in Rich- mond, N. B., May 26, 1852, the son of James Sherard and Elizabeth (Porter) Carvelle. His mother was of Scotch birth, her ancestors being neighbors of the im- mortal Bobbie Burns, and his father was of English descent, tracing his ancestry to the time of William the Conqueror. His great-grandfather fought in the War of the Revolution on the British side.
After attending the schools of his native town Dr. Carvelle entered, in 1873, the Boston Eye and Ear infirmary as a medical attendant. There he remained two years and during the second year pur- sted studies under the guidance of Dr. Albert N. Blodgett, superintendent of the institution. In 1875 he entered the Harvard Medical school, graduating in 1878. During his last year there he assisted for a month in the practice of Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson, residing at the house of Dr. Emerson's father, the distinguished Ralph Waldo Emerson, where his associations were ex- ceedingly delightful.
After graduation from college Dr. Carvelle resided in Boston for a short time and then removed to Manches- ter. There he continued in general practice until 1884, since which date he has devoted himself to the treatment of the eye and ear. As a specialist in diseases of these organs he ranks high, being the first ophthalmic and aural surgeon in New Hampshire and frequently called to all parts of the state on difficult cases.
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He has taken various special courses in the line of his special work in New York and in 1887 he went abroad for further study, spending several months in the Royal London Ophthalmic hospital and in the eye and eat clinics of Paris. He is a member of the New Hamp- shire Medical society, the Manchester Medical association, censor of the Medico-Chirurgical college of Phila- delphia, honorary member of the I. Webster Fox Ophthalmological society of Philadelphia, of the ophthal- mnological section of the American Medical association and of the Pan-American Medical congress at Havana, Cuba, Feb. 1901. He is ophthalmic and aural surgeon of the Elliot hospital.
Dr. Carvelle is an Episcopalian, but attends the Frank- lin Street Congregational church. On May 5, 1893, he married Anna Brewster Sullivan, daughter of John and Arinna (Whittemore) Sullivan of Suncook, a grand-daughter of the late Hon. Aaron Whittemore of Pembroke. They have one daughter, Euphrosyne Parepa, born May 15, 1894.
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EMIL CUSTER, M. D.
Dr. Custer practised medicine for nearly half a century in Manchester, N. H., and died the oldest practi- tioner in the city. He was born in Frankfurt a-m (am Main), Germany, June 12, 1820. His father was a native of Switzerland, his mother of Germany.
His parents removed to Altstatten, canton St. Gallen, Switzerland, when he was four years of age. There he received his primary education; he attended the Latin School and Gymnasium of Aarau and St. Gallen, and spent seven years at the Universities of Zurich, Freiburg, Wurzburg and Munich. After completing his studies, he married Mrs. Nannette Tollmann-Spann, a lady of fine presence and amiable disposition, an accomplished pianist, descended from a family of rank and importance in Swiss history. In the fall of 1846 Dr. Custer with his family came to America and after a short stay in Syracuse, N. Y., settled in Manchester, N. H., in 1847, when the city was in its infancy.
Dr. Custer possessed a fine classical education and high literary attainments with a refined poetic mind. He gradually built up an extensive practice in the city and surrounding country. He was most popular, a man of strictest integrity, full of conscientious endeavor for his fellowmen; beloved and respected by all who knew him. He combined the skill with which he ministered to the sick and afflicted, with a cheerfulness which brought sun- shine to many a discouraged soul, and delighted heavy hearts by his unlimited fund of wit and humor.
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He was a large hearted genial man, whose word was as good as his bond, and in his professional attendance he made no difference between rich or poor. He was progressive in his ideas. Although a thoroughly educated allopathic physician he investigated the system of home- opathy, and finding it superior to the old school, he became a firm believer and practiced it to the end of his life. He said jokingly, that his conscience would not allow him to practise allopathy, after he knew there was a better way of treatment. In this he achieved success and his advice and skill were sought by many in the city and surrounding country. He was systematic in all his work, neglecting nothing, and although he had a very large practise, he found time for sociability, and was a welcome guest wherever he went.
Dr. Custer was a most modest and unassuming man, and only his most intimate friends had an insight to his rich and fertile mind. To all others he was the able and genial physician. He was fond of children. His own two having died in infancy, he adopted his wife's children and was a most indulgent parent to them.
His wife's death occurred seven years before his own demise, which ended a most useful life, May 18th, 1896. He kept his bright, cheery disposition through a long and trying illness, till he succumbed to the inevitable.
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EDWARD L. CUSTER, ARTIST.
Edward L. Custer was born in Basel, Switzerland, January 24, 1837, oldest son of Henry M. and Nannette Tollman-Spann. After his father's death, his mother married Dr. Emil Custer, a man who, with his love for children, cared for them as if his own. He received his primary education in Switzerland and America, but his art education in Germany. He was nine years old when his parents came to America; overcoming many difficul- ties in their struggle to gain a foothold. He attended the schools of Manchester, New Hampshire, and soon helped to support himself by his palette and brush. His talent was early apparent. Some of his pictures, painted while an untaught boy of fourteen years, are still pre- served by the family, and though crude are strikingly natural in tone and action. He also did a great deal of decorative work, and also taught drawing and painting. In 1860 he sailed for Europe, and studied in the art school of Dusseldorf, Germany, and after that became a pupil at the Royal Academy in Munich, Bavaria, where he studied under Steffan, and Schiess, both original and powerful painters of landscapes. He spent his summers in Switzerland, with his teachers, sketching from Nature, and after two years he returned, and exhibited a number of his paintings in New York City, where they found ready purchasers. In the summer his favor- ite haunts were northern New Hampshire and Vermont, upon the Connecticut and its tributaries. His realistic
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studies of these localities, afterwards wrought into more artistic form, were widely known and admired. In 1864 he settled in Boston, Mass., and in the same year he married Miss Ruth A. Porter of Manchester, N. H., a young lady of culture, and a successful teacher in the Public Schools of that city. In Boston, his talent was recognized at once, and he was successful from the beginning. He painted landscapes and portraits both, was especially delighted in portraying of children. His portraits were uniformly good likenesses, for no man was more accurate in the observation of traits or more faithful in their reproduction. His landscapes and animal pictures were also the result of patient and loving study, and so were always characteristic in detail, as well as in general effect, and show his ability was not confined to one branch of art alone. In 1870 he went abroad again with his wife and spent another year in devoted study, and visited the art galleries of Italy, Holland, and Germany. On his return to America his work began to exhibit a style and vigor beyond the expectations of his warmest friends.
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