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XIX. Dr. EZRA CARTER, was son of Timothy Carter, Esq., of Concord, West Parish. [See " Descendants of Rev. Timothy Walker," and " Town Officers."] He received the medical degree of M. D. at Bowdoin College, in 1824; commenced practice in 1825, in his native town ; next year he removed to Loudon ; returned to Concord in 1828, where he has remained in large practice till the present time. Representative in 1836 and 1837. He was commissioned justice of the peace in 1837; in 1844 and 1845 was President of the Centre District Medical Society, and in 1852 President of the New-Hampshire Medical Society.
XX. Dr. JOSIAH CROSBY, now of Manchester, came to Concord in 1825, from Epsom, and remained here in good practice till 1828. Ile was a son of Dr. Asa Crosby, formerly of Gilmanton. His history properly belongs to Manchester, where he is distinguished by an extensive and successful practice.
XXI. Dr. EDWARD B. MOORE, of Lancaster, practiced in Concord about six months, in 1828; thence removed to Epping.
XXII. Dr. JOSEPH REYNOLDS, son of Rev. Freegrace Reynolds, of Wil- mington, Mass., came to Concord in 1828; removed to Chester in 1831, thence to Gloucester, Mass. While in Concord he was two years Secretary of the N. H. Colonization Society.
XXIII. Dr. NATHANIEL WHEAT, came from Candia to Concord in 1834, and remained till 1837.
XXIV. Dr. JOSIAHI KITTREDGE, a native of Mont-Vernon, N. II., com- menced practice in Pembroke, 1819; moved to Boston, 1833; came to Concord, 1837, where, remaining a year or two, he moved to Nashua, where he still resides.
XXV. Dr. ROBERT LANE, of Sutton, came to Concord about 1837, but remained only a short time. His daughter married Geo. W. Ela, Esq.
XXVI. Dr. THOMAS BROWN, a native of Andover, N. II., practiced in Deerfield ; was in practice in Concord from 1831 till 1837, when he went to Cambridge, Mass. He afterwards settled in Manchester, where he be- came widely known for his exertions in the cause of temperance. He died suddenly of cholera, in 1849.
XXVII. Dr. MOSES THOMPSON WILLARD, son of Moses F. Willard, half-brother of Capt. Benjamin Parker, was born in Bow, 1806; graduated at the Medical College in Hanover, 1835, and commenced the practice of dentistry in Concord, where he continues to reside.
XXVIII. Dr. TIMOTHY HAYNES, a native of Alexandria, N. H., born Sept. 5, 1810 ; took his medical degree at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, 1836, and immediately after commenced the practice of med- icine and surgery in Concord, where he still resides. A large number of individuals have pursued their professional studies under his instruction.
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XXIX. Dr. CHARLES PINCKNEY GAGE, born in Hopkinton, April 5. 1811; took his degree at the Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1837, and remained in that city a year, when he came to Concord, where he still resides in extensive practice. In 1846 he was a delegate to form the American Medical Association, in New-York, of which he is a member.
XXX. Dr. HENRY O. STONE, from Salem, Mass., had an office in Con- cord in 1845, and remained four or five years.
XXXI. Dr. DANIEL J. HOYT, son of Daniel N. Hoyt, who formerly kept the " Washington House," at the north end in Concord, studied medi- cine with Dr. Peter Renton, and commenced practice in Concord in 1840 ; next year he removed to Manchester, where he died, July 13, 1847, but was buried in the old burying-ground in Concord, where a handsome mon- ument is erected to his memory.
XXXII. Dr. ISAAC COLBY, son of Isaac Colby, and cousin of Dr. Elijah C., born in Hopkinton, Aug. 6, 1793, came to Concord in the fall of 1839, and remained about one year and a half. He then moved to Keene, and in 1844 to Salem, Mass. In 1854 he returned to Concord.
XXXIII. Dr. MOSES CARTER, son of Jacob Carter, of Concord, [sec " Carter Family,"] entered on the practice of medicine in Newbury, Mass., 1811. During the last war with Great Britain he was a surgeon on board three different vessels, and was twice captured and carried into British ports. After the war he practiced in "Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass. ; came to Concord, in poor health, 1842. He had a large experience in small-pox, and was usually employed as town physician for persons in that disease. He resided in Concord till 1854, when he moved to Sanbornton- Bridge.
XXXIV. Dr. JONATHAN C. PRESCOTT, born at Sanbornton, June 11, 1795, came to Concord from Pittsfield, in 1843 ; he died, after a most dis- tressing sickness of disease of the kidneys, Feb. 13, 1844, in the 49th year of his age. IIe was buried at Pittsfield. At his funeral the Rev. Jonathan Curtice, his former pastor, preached a sermon from Col. 4 : 14, " The be- loved physician."
XXXV. Dr. EBENEZER G. MOORE, a native of Dorchester, N. H., 1797, having practiced in Tamworth and in Wells, Me., came to Concord in 1844, where he still continues in good practice.
XXXVI. Dr. GEORGE CHANDLER, came to Concord from Worcester, Mass., in October, 1842, as the first Superintendent of the New-Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, and continued in charge of that institution until 1845, when he was appointed Superintendent of the State Lunatic Hospital of Massachusetts.
XXXVII. Dr. WILLIAM D. BUCK, a native of Williamstown. Vt., a grad- uate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New-York city, opened an office in Concord in company with Dr. Thomas Chadbourne, in 1842. In 1845-6 spent a year in Europe, and in the fall of 1846 went into prac- tice in Manchester ; thence, in 1850, to San Francisco, Cal. He returned the next year to Manchester, where he still abides in practice.
XXXVIII. Dr. BENJAMIN H. TRIPP, born in Oxford county, Me., Nov. 25, 1815 ; commenced practice in Londonderry at the age of 23. Came to Concord in 1843. He paid particular attention in his practice to cuta- neous diseases. He left Concord in 1849.
XXXIX. Dr. WILLIAM PRESCOTT, born in Sanbornton, Dec. 29, 1788;
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received his medical degree at Ilanover, in 1815. He practiced in Gil- manton about eighteen years; then in Lynn, Mass., about thirteen years. Having sustained numerous useful and important offices in those places, he came to Concord in 1845, where he still resides. For many years Dr. Prescott has turned his attention to literary and seientifie pursuits-partic- ularly to Natural History. He has one of the most valuable and extensive private cabinets in natural history, geology, antiquities, and other euriosi- ties, in New-England-containing more than ten thousand specimens. He was the principal founder of the Concord Society of Natural History, and for many years its President.
XL. Dr. MOORE RUSSELL FLETCHER, a native of Campton, born Jan. 17, 1811, and nephew of Samuel Fletcher, Esq., of Coneord, with whom he resided in his youth. Pursuing his preparatory and professional studies under great pecuniary embarrassments, he took his medical diploma at Bowdoin College, 1836, and opened an office in Boston. In 1838 he invented the "Fletcher Truss." In 1840 he married Anne Catherine, daughter of Hon. James Allanshaw, of the Province of New Brunswick, where he resided about five years, and in the fall of 1845 opened an office in Concord. Here he remained two years, and now resides in Cambridge, Ms.
XLI. Dr. ANDREW MCFARLAND, son of Asa McFarland, D. D., of Con- cord, born July 17, 1817, commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Dixi Crosby, then of Gilmanton ; begun practice in Sandwich, 1838; received a medieal diploma from Dartmouth College, 1840 ; and from Jefferson Medi- cal College, Philadelphia, 1843; practiced about two years at Meredith Bridge, and was appointed superintendant and physician of the New Hamp- shire Asylum for the Insane in August, 1845. In 1850 he made a tour in Europe, and after his return published an entertaining volume, ealled " The Eseape." Dr. MeF. resigned his office at the asylum in 1852, and in 1854 was appointed Superintendent of the State Lunatic Hospital of Illinois, at Jacksonville.
XLII. Dr. JAMES F. SARGENT, born in Warner, July 4, 1810; received his medical degree at Dartmouth ; practiced in Warner, Lowell, Mass., and Hopkinton, and came to Concord, 1847.
XLIII. Dr. EPHRAIM F. WILSON, son of Dr. Job Wilson, born in Salis- bury, Oct. 30, 1817; took his medical degree at Castleton, Vt. ; commenced practiec at Sanbornton, and came to Concord, East village, 1849; whenee, in 1854, he moved to Roekville, Conn.
XLIV. Dr. WILLIAM H. SMART, son of the late Col. Benning Smart, was born in Hopkinton, April 8, 1810 ; commenced practice at Centre Har- bor, 1839, and came to Concord, 1849, where he remains in practice.
XLV. Dr. EDWARD H. PARKER, son of Isaac Parker, Esq., of Boston, opened an office in Concord, 1850 ; removed to New York, where he prac- tiees, and is a professor in a medical college.
XLVI. Dr. ALPHEUS MORRILL, a native of Canterbury, practiced some years in Ohio ; came to Coneord, 1849, and adopts the homeopathie prac- tiee. Dr. - BAKER, from Loudon, is associated with him in his praetiee.
XLVII. Dr. BENJAMIN S. WARREN, a native of Peacham, Vt. ; gradu- ated at the Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio ; came to Concord in 1849.
XLVIII. Dr. JOHN EUGENE TYLER, Superintendent of the New Hamp- shire Asylum for the Insane, at Coneord ; was born in Boston, Dee. 9, 1819; received a medical degree at Dartmouth College, in 1845, and at Philadelphia, in 1846, when he commeneed the practice of medicine at
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Salmon Falls. He continued in that place till he was appointed, in 1852, to the office which he now fills.
XLIX. Dr. WILLIAM W. FLETCHER, Dentist, born at Plymouth, 1816; studied dentistry in Boston, 1839-40 ; came here in 1846, and remains in practice.
L. Dr. CHARLES BELL, son of IIon. Samuel Bell, of Chester, opened an office in Concord, 1855, and is in practice.
Besides the foregoing physicians, the following were in Concord, in prac- tice, or residents, a short time, but whose particular history is not known.
Dr. CHARLES HERBERT, died at Concord, 1816.
Dr. JONATHAN BADGER, about 1812.
Dr. JOHN BRODHEAD, about 1829.
Dr. STEPHEN EMERY, 1843.
Dr. PHILIP BROWN, Jr., 1843.
Dr. JOHN T. G. LEACII, about 1832.
Dr. JOHN RENTON, about 1843.
Dr. AUGUSTUS FRANK, Homoo., 1843.
Dr. D. S. LYMAN, 1845.
Dr. JEREMIAH GATES, 1845.
Dr. D. P. WILSON, Dentist, 1846.
Dr. LUTHER FARLEY, 1847.
Dr. MOSES ATWOOD, Homo., 1849.
Dr. CHARLES A. DAVIS, 1850, son of Robert Davis, 2d ; now at Hospi- tal, Chelsea, Mass. See " Graduates."
Dr. S. LAFAYETTE SIMPSON, a native of Concord, 1849; now at Con- toocookville.
Dr. W. H. HOSMER, Fisherville, 1850.
Dr. JOHN W. LITTLE, Dentist, 1850.
Dr. J. M. GRAVES, 1854-5.
GRADUATES AT COLLEGE FROM CONCORD,
WITH BRIEF NOTICES.
[Arranged in the order of their graduation.]
I. TIMOTIIY WALKER, A. M., H. C., 1756. See Biography.
II. STEPHEN SCALES, A. M., son of Rev. James Scales, born in Concord Oct. 16. 1741 ; II. C., 1763 ; settled in the practice of law at Chelmsford, MIs., and there died, Nov. 5, 1772. There, a tombstone erected to his me- mory contains a Latin inscription, concluding with the following lines from Horace :
" O mi amice, Vitæ summa brevis-spem nos, Vetat inchoare langam ; Jam ct premit nox."
III. JOHN COFFIN, A. M., Colonel, son of William Coffin, born Oct. 16, 1764; grad. D. C., 1791 ; for many years an instructor of youth ; resided
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in the city of New-York, a useful and respected citizen ; died Dec. 27, 1852, aged 87, and was buried in the old burying-ground in Concord.
IV. CHARLES WALKER, A. M., son of Hon. Timothy Walker, born Sept. 25, 1765 ; grad. II. C. 1789; was the first preceptor of the Aurean Acad- emy at Amherst ; studied law with John Pickering, of Portsmouth ; set- tled in the practice of law in his native town; was appointed second Post- master in this place, in 1801; Solicitor of Rockingham County, 1806-1808; Justice throughout the State, 1830; was several years President of the upper Concord Bank. He was averse to public office, and lived in much retirement the latter years of his life. He died July 29, 1834, aged 68.
V. PAUL ROLFE, A. M., grad. H. C., 1792. Settled as a farmer in Con- cord. [See Biog. of Benj. Rolfe, pp. 555-6.
VI. EDMUND EASTMAN, A. M., son of Benjamin, grad. at D. C. 1793 ; some time a teacher in Concord ; settled in the ministry at Limerick, Me., 1795, and died in 1812. During his ministry forty were added to the church.
VII. PHILIP CARRIGAIN, grad. D. C., 1794. [See Biog., p. 596.
VIII. SAMUEL A. BRADLEY, A. M., son of Hon. John Bradley, born Nov. 22, 1774; grad. D. C. 1799; settled in the practice of law at Fryeburg, Me. ; several years represented that town in the General Court of Massa- chusetts ; afterwards moved to Portland ; was candidate for Member of Congress ; a gentleman of noble appearance and dignified manners. He never married ; died Sept. 24, 1844, aged 70 years.
IX. NATHAN KINSMAN, son of Nathan and Elizabeth Kinsman, born in Concord, Nov. 14, 1777; graduated at D. C., 1799 ; settled in the practice of law in Portland, about 1803, where he continued in extensive practice till his death, March, 1829. He was the lawyer of whom the anecdote is told relative to Dr. Payson's asking a blessing at tea, and who became, afterwards, a member of Dr. P.'s church.
X. EPHRAIM ABBOT, A. M., son of Benjamin, born Sept. 28, 1779; graduated at H. C., in 1806 ; ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Greenland, Oct. 27, 1813 ; previous to which time he performed mission- ary service in Maine, New-Hampshire and Rhode Island. Resigning his charge on account of ill health, he was dismissed, Oct. 28, 1828, and after- wards was Preceptor of Brackett Academy in Greenland, and of Westford Academy, Mass., in which latter place he now resides; a justice of the peace, and has been representative of the town. Mr. Abbot first married Mary H., daughter of Rev. Eliphalet Pearson, LL. D., of Andover, Mass. She died, 1829, aged 48. He second married Abigail W. Bancroft, of Groton, Mass.
XI. ABIEL CHANDLER graduated at H. C., 1806. [See Biography.]
XII. SAMUEL A. KIMBALL, A. M., son of Dea. John Kimball, born March 3, 1782, graduated at D. C., 1806; practiced law a short time in Dover, but settled in his native town ; has been clerk of the senate, dep- uty secretary, and representative of the town.
XIII. MOSES HAZEN BRADLEY, A. M., son of Hon. John Bradley, born March 15, 1782, graduated at D. C., 1807; settled in practice at Bristol, 1816 ; representative in 1823, and next year senator for the eleventh Sen- atorial District. He died of consumption, at his brother Richard's, in Con- cord, in 1834, aged 52.
XIV. SAMUEL AYER, A. M., M. D., son of Capt. Richard Ayer, born Aug.
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31, 1786 ; graduated at D. C., 1807 ; was tutor two years ; pursued medi- cal studies at Philadelphia, and settled in practice at Portland, Me., where he was representative ; thence removed to Eastport, as surveyor of the port of Passamaquoddy. He died, much respected and lamented, Nov. 12, 1832. His widow, Sarah Connell, and three children, afterwards came to Concord, where she died, May 7, 1835.
XV. NATHANIEL H. CARTER, A. M., graduated at D. C., 1811. [See Biography.]
XVI. ABIEL CARTER, A. M., son of Jacob Carter, born March 2, 1791, graduated at D. C., 1813; ordained as an Episcopal minister ; preached at various places, and died at Savannah, Ga., Nov. 1, 1837, aged 36.
XVII. GEORGE KENT, A. M., son of Hon. Wm. A. Kent, [sce " Kent Family,"] graduated at D. C., 1814; studied law, and admitted to practice, 1817, and settled in his native town. In 1821, was appointed cashier of the Concord bank ; represented the town, 1828; was one of the editors and proprietors of the New-Hampshire Statesman and Concord Register, several years ; delivered the oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Dartmouth College, in 1832, which was published ; was a trustee of the College, which he resigned in 1840. Mr. Kent now resides in Bangor, Me. Many articles from his pen of "prose and poetry," have been published, and it is understood that he has in compilation, ready for the press, a man- uscript volume, containing about one hundred and fifty articles, which may hereafter be published.
XVIII. RICHARD BARTLETT, A. M., son of Caleb Bartlett, grandson of the Rev. Samuel Mcclintock, D. D., formerly of Greenland. He was born at Pembroke, Jan. 8, 1794, but resided in this town before and dur- ing his collegiate course ; graduated at D. C., 1815; studied law, and admitted to practice in Concord, 1818; was several years Deputy Secre- tary of State; Clerk of the Senate ; Secretary of State from 1825 to 1829, and Representative in 1830 and 1831. He was editor and proprietor of the New-Hampshire Journal. In March, 1834, Mr. Bartlett left Coneord for a residence in the eity of New-York. In June, 1836, his health began to fail, and he gradually declined, until his death, Oct. 23, 1837. Mr. Bartlett was one of the founders of the N. H. Historieal Society, and wrote an able article on the Preservation of Manuscripts, which was published in volume fifth of the Historical Collections. He was a gentleman of many excellent qualities, and held in high esteem by numerous friends.
XIX. CHARLES WALKER, Jr., A. M., son of Charles Walker, Esq., grad- ated at H. C., 1818. [See notiee, p. 456.]
XX. DAVID KIMBALL, Rev., born in Hopkinton, lived in Concord; learned the printers' art in George Hough's office; graduated at Y. C., 1818, and at Andover Theological Seminary, 1821; some years settled in the ministry at Martinsburg, N. Y., and at other places; editor of the New-Hampshire Observer, which he relinquished in 1841; now resident at Hanover, and printer for the College.
XXI. WILLIAM S. ROGERS, son of Josiah Rogers, formerly of Concord, born Sept. 11, 1797 ; graduated at D. C., 1820; teacher in Washington city, 1821; afterwards in Lynn, Mass. He died of consumption, at his father's, in Concord, March 8, 1823, and was buried in the Friends' bury- ing ground. No monument is erected at his grave.
XXII. EDWARD KENT, A. M., son of Hon. Wm. A. Kent, born Jan. 8, 1802, graduated at H. C., 1821; settled in the practice of law at Bangor,
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Me. He was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Sessions for Penob- scot County in 1826; representative in 1829-32: mayor of the city of Bangor. 1836 and 1837; Governor of the State of Maine. 1838: one of the Commissioners chosen in 1842 to represent the State in the negotia- tion of the Ashburton Treaty, at Washington. In 1849 appointed by President Taylor, Minister Plenipotentiary to Rio Janeiro, in Brazil, which office he held four years. Now in Bangor.
XXIII. WILLIAM C. THOMPSON, A. M., son of the late Hon. Thomas W. Thompson, was born in Salisbury, but while a resident of Concord graduated at D. C., 1$20. He studied law : practiced a short time in Con- cord : removed to Plymouth, and thence to Worcester, Mass., where he now resides.
XXIV. HENRY WOOD, a native of Loudon. learned the printing business in the office of George Hough. Esq. ; united with the First Church. under Dr. McFarland, 1816 : graduated at D. C., 1822; tutor in Hampden Syd- nev College. Va. : ordained pastor of the church in Goffstown, 1826: in- stalled over church in Haverhill and at Hanover : editor of the Congrega- tional Journal from 1840 to 1834; and now U. S. Consul at Beyrout, in Turkey.
XIV. WILLIAM CLARK, a native of -, was an appentice in George Hough's office in Concord : united with the church in Concord. Dr. MIc- Farland's, 1816 : graduated at D. C., 1822 : settled pastor of the Congre- gational church in Wells, Me., and for many years agent of the American Board for Foreign Missions.
XAVI. SETH EASTMAN, son of Robert and Sarah Eastman, born in Brunswick. Me .. Jan. 24. 1Sos, graduated at the Military Academy, West Point. 1×21: Lieut. in the U. S. service at Fort Snelling: Professor of Drawing at West Point eight years ; was in the Florida war ; now holds a Captain's commission, and is stationed at Washington eity, illustrating a magnificent work giving an account of the Indians of the United States. Capt. Eastman married. in 1835. Mary Henderson, daughter of Dr. Thomas Henderson, of Virginia, and grand-daughter of the late Commodore Trux- ton. of the U. S. Navy.
XVII. JOHN MCCLINTOCK BARTLETT. A. B., brother of Richard Bart- lett. Esq .. resided in Concord before and during his collegiate course : grad- uated at Bowdoin College. 1823; studied law, and resides in the State of New-York.
XXVIII. SAMUEL GILMAN TENNEY. A. B., graduated at D. C., 1823, while a resident in Concord : studied theology : settled at Lyndon, Vt .. 1825; was dismissed. 1831 : preached in Hillsborough from 1838 to 1843, and has been at Alstead since 1851.
XXIX. JOSHUA THOMPSON RUSSELL, son of Elijah Russell, printer, born in Concord. Oct. 20. 1794, and named for his unele. the late Lieut. Joshua Thompson, a Revolutionary soldier : graduated at the New-Jersey College. 1$25 ; settled as pastor of a Presbyterian Church at Newark, N. J .; afterwards an agent of the Presbyterian Board. Subsequently he joined the Baptist denomination. and was pastor of a church in Jackson, Miss. He died suddenly, March 6, 1854. under the following unusual circumstan- ces : He was present at the meeting of the Jackson Bible Society, on Sunday evening. in the Presbyterian church. and had just spoken to the following resolution -" Resolved. That the Bible is a tried book. and that its circulation through the agency of the American Bible Society-catholic in its spirit and aim-merits the highest confidence and the warmest sup-
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port of the Christian public." He dwelt on the fact that the Bible was a tried book ; he said " millions now around the throne of God, singing the song of Moses and the Lamb, had been saved by the blessed influences of this book." While he uttered this sentence, he looked up, as if he had a vision of what he described : he then paused a moment, and said, " I have done." These were his last words. He sat down, but sunk immediately into apoplexy, from which the skill of experienced physicians could not arouse him. He breathed his last at two o'clock, P. M., next day, at the residence of his son, E. P. Russell.
XXX. DANIEL LIVERMORE RUSSELL, brother of Joshua T., born Nov. 27, 1600, is also a preacher of the Baptist denomination, at the South. He studied and is understood to have graduated at Hampden Sydney College, Va., about 1526.
XXXI. JOSEPH ROBINSON, A. M .. son of Josiah Robinson, born Nov. 26, 1798: graduated D. C., 1825; followed teaching in Concord till the fall of 1829; Deputy Secretary of State six years; Register of Deeds. 1836; Representative, 1841; Register of Probate, 1844; postmaster four years ; chairman of the board of selectmen, 1850; for two years director and treasurer of the People's Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and has pursued mainly the business of farming for twenty-five years.
XXXII. MOSES KIMBALL, A. B., born in Hopkinton, July 24, 1799; learned the printing business with Geo. Hough, Esq. ; grad. at D. C., 1626, while a resident in Concord ; studied theology at Andover ; was ordained at Randolph, Vt., January, 1832; dismissed in 1833; settled at Hopkin- ton, May 7, 1834, where he remained twelve years. He now preaches in Weathersfield, Vt.
XXXIII. THOMAS B. WATERMAN. A. B., son of Rev. Thomas Water- man, born in Bow, but resided in Concord; grad. at D. C. in 1-26; an honorary member and patron of the New-Hampshire Historical Society ; resided in Boston ; deceased.
XXXIV. HAMILTON HUTCHINS, A. M., son of the late Abel Hutchins, born July 10. 1805 ; grad. at D. C., 1827 ; admitted to the bar in Concord. 1830 ; was highly esteemed for his amiable temper and gentlemanly man- ners. He married, Oct. 30, 1845, Mary Chandler, of Lexington. Mass., who died Nov. 30, the same year. After suffering much from protracted ill health, he died April 6, 1851. A beautiful portrait of him is in posses- sion of his sisters, at the family mansion on State street.
XXXV. THOMAS SPARHAWK, M. D., son of Samuel Sparhawk, Esq., former Secretary of State, was born in Portsmouth, but grad. at D. C. while a resident in Concord; studied medicine ; took his degree, M. D .. at Harvard College, and settled in Conway ; now in practice at Amesbury, Ms.
XXXVI. CHARLES EDWARD THOMPSON, A. B., son of Hon. Thomas W. Thompson, born in Salisbury; grad. at D. C. in 1625; studied law ; practiced some years in Haverhill, N. H. ; now resides in Chicago, IlI.
XXXVII. CHANDLER E. POTTER. A. B., son of Joseph Potter, born Mar. 7, 1807 ; grad. at D. C. 1831 ; instructor at Concord, Portsmouth and Man- chester ; studied law with Ichabod Bartlett, of Portsmouth, and while there was representative one year. In 1544 moved to Manchester, and became editor and proprictor of the Manchester Democrat four years ; in 1545 was appointed Justice of the Police Court of Manchester; editor of the Far- mers' Monthly Visitor two years, and since connected with J. O. Adams, Esq., editor of the Granite Farmer and Visitor. Mr. Potter has been some
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