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SHEPHERD L. BOWERS, son of James and Nancy (Symonds) Bowers, was born at Acworth. Dec. 13. 1827. He continued on the farm with his father until the age of twenty years, when he
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commenced a course of study. Had his preparatory training at Kimball Union Academy, in this state, and at Thetford academy, Vermont. He defrayed his own expenses, while fit- ting for college, by teaching, in which he was engaged at Fitchburg and Leominster, Mass., and the high school in his native town. He entered Dartmouth college in IS52. He soon, however, turned his attention to law, and studied his profession in the office of Hon. Asa Fowler, of Concord, since judge of the supreme judicial court. He was admitted to the bar in 1856, and the same year came to this town and began the practice of law, in which he has since continued. He was appointed register of probate for Sullivan county in 1861, and held the office until 1871. He was a representative to the legis- lature in 1865, and a delegate to the Republican national con- vention at Baltimore in 1864. He was reappointed register of probate in 1876, which office he still holds. He was one of the originators of the board of education for the Union dis- trict, and has been superintending school committee for the town at different times.
J. C. CROOKER had a law office in town for a number of years, beginning about 1846. He was for a while a preceptor in the academy here and at Unity. He went to the West, where he has since been in the practice of his profession. He married, Dec. 13, 1848, Sarah B. Slayton, of Woodstock, Vt.
GEORGE S. BARTON, son of Hon. Cyrus Barton, the founder of the Argus and Spectator, graduated at Dartmouth college in 1851 ; was admitted to the bar in 1853, and opened an office at Burlington, Iowa. The following year he came to Newport, and went into practice with the Hon. Edmund Burke. He was clerk of the New Hampshire senate in 1855 and 1856, and died the following July, aged 26 years. [See Literature.]
WILLIAM F. NEWTON, son of Hubbard Newton, Esq., was born at Newport, Nov. 23, ISIS. In early youth he learned the trade of printing, which he followed for a few years. After a preparatory course, he entered the profession of law in his father's office, and was admitted to the Sullivan county bar in 1843, where he has since been engaged in practice. He has
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held the office of clerk of the courts for Sullivan county for several years, and other positions of trust. In connection with his other business, he has to some extent engaged in farming and gardening, and as a cultivator of strawberries, marketing a hundred bushels or more in a single year. He married, March 23, 1876, Julia, daughter of David McQueston, M. D., of Wash- ington, N. H., who was born April 22, 1825.
BROOKS K. WEBBER, son of Maximilian J. Webber, studied law, and, after being admitted to the bar, opened an office in this town, but after a brief practice removed to Hillsborough, where he now resides. He has been twice a representative from that town.
W. H. II. ALLEN was born at Winhall, Bennington county, Vt., December 10, 1829. At the age of sixteen he came to Surry, N. H., where he spent three years at farm work, teach- ing, and attending school. He fitted for college with Joseph Perry, Esq., of Keene; entered Dartmouth college in IS51 ; was graduated there in the class of IS55; taught the high school at Hopkinton, Mass., one year. He read law with Wheeler & Faulkner and F. F. Lane, of Keene, and Burke & Wait, in this town, and was here admitted to the bar in Sep- tember, IS5S. He was appointed clerk of the courts for Sulli- van county in 1858, and held the office until 1863, when he was appointed paymaster in the U. S. army, which office he held until the close of the war. He practised law here until March, ISGS. when he removed to Claremont. While here, he was a moderator in 1863, and again in 1866. He held the office of judge of probate from 1867 to July, IS74 ; was appointed regis- ter in bankruptcy in 1867, and a judge of the supreme court of New Hampshire in IS76, a position he still holds. He is presi- dent of the board of trustees of the State Normal School. He was editor of the Sullivan Republican so long as it existed .- from January, IS59, to the spring of 1861,-when it was sus- pended. Ile married Ellen E. Joslin, of Surry, in 1856. She died in 1873, and the following year he married Sallie S. Sabin, of Claremont, a daughter of Dr. John Sabin, of Straf- ford, Vt.
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IRA McL. BARTON, son of Hon. Levi W. Barton, was born in Newport, March 11, IS40. He commenced teaching at the age of seventeen, and taught with marked success in Newport, Claremont, and Alstead ; was fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy, and entered Dartmouth college in IS5S, but, without graduating, began the study of law in the office of his father, and was admitted to the bar in 1863. On the breaking out of the Rebellion, he raised a company of three months volunteers ; was appointed captain, receiving one of the first commissions issued, and served under Col. Tappan. At the expiration of his term, he recruited another company, and joined the Fifth New Hampshire Regiment, known as the "Fighting Fifth," under Col. Cross, in which he was commis- sioned captain ; served under Gen. McClellan, in the peninsula campaign ; was at the battle of Fair Oaks, the Seven Days' Fight, and the retreat to Harrison's Landing. He resigned on account of ill-health. When able to enter the service again, he was commissioned captain of Company B, Heavy Artillery, and was stationed at Fort Constitution, Portsmouth harbor, and subsequently at Fort Foot, near Washington. In the summer of 1864 he organized a regiment of heavy artillery, of which he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel, and, being put in com- mand, was stationed at Fort Sumner, where he remained till the close of the war ; soon after which, he received the appointment of second lieutenant in the regular army, and was stationed at Pine Bluff, Ark. ; was promoted to first lieutenant. At the end of two years he resigned his commission. He was appointed district attorney for the tenth district of Arkansas, and after- wards judge of the criminal court for the county of Jefferson in that state. He was part owner of the Jefferson Republican, a weekly paper published at Pine Bluff, and for a short time its chief editor. He returned from Arkansas in December, 1875, and became law partner with his father, where he continued until his death, which occurred Jan. 19, 1876. He married, in 1861, Helen M. Wilcox, of Newport; his second wife was Addie L. Barton, of Ludlow, Vt.
GEORGE R. BROWN, son of Aaron and Eadey (Watts) Brown, was born March 4, IS38, at Acworth. After a preparatory
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course, he entered Tufts college, where he graduated in 1866. He studied law with the Hon. Edmund Burke, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1868, and commenced practice here. He was appointed register of probate in 1871, and held the office until 1876. He has been a superintending school committee in this town several times, and was one of the committee to or- ganize the Union school district. He has been a preceptor in the academy here and at Walpole.
ARTHUR C. BRADLEY, son of Jonathan D. Bradley, and grand- son of Hon. William C. Bradley, an eminent lawyer of West- minster, Vt., is a man of scholarly attainments. He was grad- uated from Amherst college at the age of twenty, and after- wards from Columbia Law School, in New York city. He devoted one year to the especial study of patent law, in the office of a distinguished attorney in New York ; after which he came to this town, was admitted to the Sullivan county bar, entered into partnership with Hon. Edmund Burke, and here commenced the practice of his profession. He now resides in the city of New York.
NATIIAN E. REED, son of Jonathan E. and Deborah R. (Hunt) Reed, was born in Burlington, Mass., the 22d day of April, 1848. In the spring of 1852, his father removed to Charlestown, N. H., where they remained one year, when they came to Newport, and settled on Pike hill. At seven- teen years of age he commenced his studies, which he pursued at the academies of New London and Claremont. At the end of three years he went to Boston, and entered the store of Messrs. Stone, Richardson & Parker, as clerk. At the end of six months he became a travelling salesman through New Hampshire, and remained in that position until March 15, 1870, when he went to Laporte City, Iowa, and went into the lumber trade, establishing the first lumber- yard in that place. In 1872, in connection with a partner, he built an elevator, and commenced buying and shipping grain, in which business he continued until the great Chicago fire. He had been for several years, at his leisure hours, studying law, and in the fall of 1872 entered the office of George Bishop,
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of Laporte City, as a student, where he continued until Nov. IS, 1873, when he was by the circuit court of Black Hawk county, Iowa, admitted to practice. In April following he opened an office in this town, and in March of the following year he became the law partner of Hon. Edmund Burke, with whom he remained one year, when they dissolved their con- nection in business, and Mr. Reed opened an office by himself, and has since continued in the practice of his profession. He married, Feb. 24, 1870, Stella M. Slader, daughter of Samuel L. Slader, Esq., of Acworth ; child, Lewis Ellsworth, born Nov. 11, 1872, at Laporte City, Iowa.
[Mason W. Tappan, of Bradford, and William P. Wheeler, of Keene,-the former a native, and the latter a former resident of this town,-though residing in other towns, have been in con- stant practice here during their whole professional lives, and hence we include them in this chapter. ]
MASON W. TAPPAN, son of Weare Tappan, Esq., was born at Newport, October 20, 1817, and at an early age removed with his father's family to Bradford, where he has since resided. He fitted for college, but, without graduat- ing, studied law with his father and Hon. George W. Nesmith. since judge of the supreme judicial court, and was admitted to the bar in 1841. He commenced business as law partner with his father at Bradford, where he soon had an extensive and va- ried practice, extending not only into Merrimack, but other coun- ties of the state. He has also had an office at Concord, where, in connection with other partners, he has for many years been doing a leading business. As a lawyer, he has long enjoyed a high rank in his profession, both as a counsellor and an advo- cate. He has been in constant practice at the bar in this town. In July, 1876, he was appointed attorney-general of the state, which office he now (IS7S) still holds.
He was elected to the legislature, from Bradford, in 1853, '54, and '55, and was a prominent member of the house. He was a candidate for speaker of the house in 1854, and came within two votes of an election, so great was his popularity, notwithstanding the party to which he was opposed had a
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majority of about twenty in the house. He was elected a mem- ber of congress in 1855, and was reelected in 1857 and again in 1859, serving in all six years. In the 34th and 35th congresses, he served on the judiciary committee ; and in the 36th was chairman of the committee on claims. In the 36th congress, in the winter of 1860-61, he was upon the celebrated committee of thirty-three-one from each state-to whom was referred so much of the president's annual message as related to the then disturbed state of the country. While in congress he was a prominent and active worker.
On the call of President Lincoln for volunteers for three months, for the suppression of the rebellion, Mr. Tappan was one of the first men in the state to enlist, and when the Ist Reg- iment was organized he was appointed its colonel. This regi- ment was mustered into service on the Ist of May, 1861, and on the 25th of the same month started for the seat of war. This being the first regiment from the state, it was cheered by con- tinued ovations all along its route. At New York they were presented, by the sons of New Hampshire in that city, with a beautiful flag. The regiment, though never engaged in actual battle, rendered important service to the Union cause by its promptness at the seat of war, and its readiness for any duty. When Col. Whipple resigned the command of the 4th Regi- ment, his place was offered to Col. Tappan ; but he declined, assigning as a reason that it would be unjust to Lieut-Col. Bell and other officers of the regiment.
Mr. Tappan has always taken a deep interest in the political and other material interests of the state. He was an earnest advocate of the Concord & Claremont Railroad, and holds in high regard his native town.
WILLIAM PLUMMER WHEELER, son of Col. Nathaniel and Huldah (Whipple) Wheeler, was born in Croydon, July 25, IS12. He spent most of his youth and a part of his early man- hood in this town, engaged in the harness business. Ile how- ever became convinced that the law was a more congenial call- ing, and, in accordance with this idea, sold out his business, and from that time forward devoted his time wholly to fitting himself for that profession. He had his preliminary literary
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training at Kimball Union Academy, where he spent three years, after which he turned his attention to the study of the law, which he pursued at Keene, at Harvard University,-the law department of which was then under the charge of Judge Story, of the United States court,-and in Boston, at which place he also had a brief practice. He was admitted to the bar in 1842, and opened an office at Keene, where he had a wide practice, and where he was actively engaged in his profession until his death, which occurred in May, 1876. He was a solic- itor for Cheshire county ten years, and in IS51 was appointed a justice of the court of common pleas, which position he de- clined, preferring to continue in the practice of his profes- sion. He was several times afterwards tendered a seat upon the bench of the supreme court of the state. In IS55, and again in IS57, he was a candidate for congress in the 3d district. He was a trustee of the State Reform School, and also of the State Agricultural College, in which latter institution he took a deep interest. He was instrumental in locating it at Hanover, in connection with Dartmouth college, and in obtaining liberal bequests in its favor,-particularly that of Mr. Culver, whose donation built Culver hall, one of the finest educational struct- ures in New England. He was president of the Keene Sav- ings Bank, an important institution, at the time of his death. He was prominent among those who organized the Episcopal church at Keene, and was always an active and liberal promoter of its interests while he lived. He received the degree of LL. D. at Harvard university in 1842, and that of A. M. at Dartmouth college, in 1850. He married, Nov. 19, 1849, Sarah D. Moul- ton, of Randolph, Vt., born March 4, IS25. Children,-Alice, born Dec. 5, 1853 ; William G., born March 8, 1857, now a banker at St. Paul, Minn.
The following resolution, presented by Hon. Edward L. Cushing, recently chief-justice of the supreme court of New Hampshire, was passed by the Cheshire county bar on the third Tuesday of October, IS76 :
"Resolved by this bar, that by the death of William P. Wheeler, Esq., the profession has lost an illustrious ornament, the state a useful and eminent citizen, and the country a wise and patriotic Christian man."
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During the obsequies all places of business in the city were closed, and every mark of respect and reverence shown.
The following are among those natives or former residents of this town who have turned their attention to the law, and have practised in other places. Some of them have been emi- nent in their profession. An account of them will be found in the Genealogy : Ebenezer Allen, at Austin, Texas ; Daniel J. Atwood, at Boston, Mass. ; Horatio Buell, at Glens Falls, N. Y. ; William Breck, at Rochester, N. Y. ; James Breck, Jr., at Chicago, Ill. ; William Franklin Bascom, at Orwell, Vt. ; Tul- ly Bascom, in Ohio ; Jonas Cutting, a supreme judge in Augus- ta, Me. ; James Corbin, at Santa Fé, Texas ; Rufus Claggett, at Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Charles H. Chapin, at St. Louis, Mo .; William J. Forsaith, at Boston, Mass. ; Horatio Hale, at Phil- adelphia, Penn. ; William G. Hale, at New Orleans. La. ; Sol- omon Heath, at Belfast, Me. ; Elijah D. Hastings, at St. Louis, Mo. ; Henry H. Metcalf, at Littleton, N. H .; David Fletcher Huntoon, at Grand Haven, Mich. ; Erastus Newton, at Lock- port, N. Y. ; Ira B. Person, at New York city ; Simeon Wheel- er, Jr., at Portsmouth, Va. ; Charles H. Woods, at Minneapo- lis, Minn.
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CHAPTER XXVII.
POLITICAL-TOWN OFFICERS-JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
OFFICERS.
MODERATORS FROM 1769.
1769. Benjamin Giles.
1798. Aaron Buell.
1770. Ebenezer Merritt.
1799. 66
1771. 66 66
1800. Christopher Newton.
1772. Robert Lane.
ISO1.
..
1773. 66
1774. 66
66
1804.
66
1805. 66
1806.
66
66
1779. 66 66
1808.
1880. 66 66
1809. Hubbard Newton.
1782. Aaron Buell.
1783.
1784. Christopher Newton.
1813. 66
1814. Hubbard Newton.
1786. Aaron Buell.
1815.
1816. William Cheney.
1788.
1817. 66 6.
1789. 66
1818. 66
1790.
1819.
1791. Jesse Lane.
1820. Hubbard Newton.
1792. Aaron Buell. 1793. 66 66
1821.
1822.
66
1794. 66
1823. William Cheney.
1795.
66
1825.
1797.
1826. Oliver Jenckes.
I777.
1778. 66 66
1807.
66
66
1781. Benjamin Giles.
1810. William Cheney.
ISII. Hubbard Newton.
1812. William Cheney.
1785. 66
1787. Christopher Newton.
1803. Phineas Chapin.
1775.
1776. Aaron Buell.
1802.
1824.
66
1796.
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1827. Oliver Jenckes.
IS28. ٠٠
1829.
IS30. Austin Corbin.
1857. 66 ..
IS31. .6
1858. Paul J. Wheeler.
1832. 66 66
1833. Josiah Stevens, Jr.
1834.
1861.
1835.
I836. 66 ..
1863. William H. H. Allen.
1837.
1864. Francis Boardman.
I838.
1865.
1839. Bela Nettleton.
1866. William H. H. Allen.
1840. Edward Wyman.
1841.
1842. Bela Nettleton.
1843.
1844.
1845. 66
1872.
1846. Edward Wyman.
I847.
..
1874. Rufus P. Claggett.
1848
1875. Eleazer C. Converse.
1849. Bela Nettleton.
1850.
1851.
I852. 66
1853.
TOWN CLERKS FROM 1769.
1769. Amos Hall.
1770. Jesse Wilcox.
1783. John Lane. 1784. Josiah Stevens.
1771. 1772. Josiah Stevens.
1785.
1786. John Lane.
I773.
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1787. ..
1774. ..
1788. Josiah Stevens.
1775. ..
1789. John Lane.
1776.
1790. Aaron Mack.
1791.
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1777. 1778.
1792. Josiah Stevens.
1779. ..
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1793. .6 ..
1780.
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1794. 4 6
.. 1781. 66
1795. Samuel Church.
1782.
1796. Elias Metcalf, declined.
1867. Eleazer C. Converse. 1868. George W. Nourse.
1 869. 1870.
I871.
1873. Paul S. Adams.
1876. Edward A. Jenks, Eleazer C. Converse.
1877. Levi W. Barton. 1878. Eleazer C. Converse.
1854. Edward Wyman. 1855. 1856. Benjamin F. Sawyer.
1859. 1860. 66
1862.
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1796. Josiah Stevens. 1797. 1798. Joseph Bascom.
1799. Jesse Wilcox, Jr. 1800.
1801. 66
1802. 66 66
66
1846.
1847. Dexter Richards.
1805. 66 66
1848.
1849. John H. Higbee.
1807.
1808. 66
1809. 66 66
ISI0. 66 66
18II. Arnold Ellis.
1812. Joseph Bascom.
1813. John B. McGregor.
1814. Erastus Baldwin.
1815.
1816. 66 66
1817.
1818.
66
1862.
1863. George W. Nourse.
1864.
1865. Benjamin Wadleigh.
1866. John Towne.
1824.
66
1825.
1826.
1827.
1828. Ira Person.
1829.
1830.
66
1831. 66 1832.
1833.
1834. 66
1835. Nathaniel B. Cutting.
1837. Jonathan W. Clement. 1838. 66
1839. Benj. B. Cushing. 1840. John Towne.
1841. Parker N. Newell.
1842. Sawyer Belknap.
1843.
1844.
1845. Parker N. Newell.
1803.
1804.
66
1806. 66
1850.
1851. Sawyer Belknap.
1852.
1853. Frederick W. Lewis.
1854. Calvin Wilcox.
1855.
1856. William Nourse.
1857.
1858. Thomas A. Twitchell.
1859. George Herrick. 1860.
1861. Eleazer C. Converse.
1819.
1820.
66
1821.
66
1822.
1823. James D. Walcott.
1867. " 1868. Ira P. George.
1869. “
1869. Carleton Hurd, appointed to fill vacancy.
1870. Henry P. Coffin.
1871. 66
1872. Elbridge Bradford.
1873. George C. Edes. 1874.
1875. Arthur B. Chase.
1876. 66 1836.
1877. 66
1878. Frank P. Meserve.
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OFFICERS.
REPRESENTATIVES FROM NEWPORT FROM 1793.
Previous to 1793 Newport was classed with Acworth, Unity, Lempster, Croydon, and Sunapee in the choice of Representa- tives. The meetings were held in Unity. Benjamin Giles was chosen in 1775 and 1776.
1793. Jesse Lane. 1794. Uriah Wilcox. 1795. 1796. 1797. Jesse Lane. 1798. 66
1799. Uriah Wilcox.
1800. Phineas Chapin.
1801. Uriah Wilcox.
1802. Phineas Chapin.
1803. Uriah Wilcox.
1804. 1805. Phineas Chapin. 1806. Uriah Wilcox. 1807. Jesse Wilcox, Jr. 1808. 1 809.
ISIO. ISII. Josiah Wakefield.
1812. Peter Stow. 1813. 1814. Hubbard Newton. 1815. 1816. William Cheney. 1817. ISIS. Uriah Wilcox. 1819. William Cheney. 1820. Uriah Wilcox. I821. 1822. James Breck. 1823. David Allen. 1824. William Cheney. I825. 1826. David Allen.
IS27. William Cheney. 1828. Oliver Jenckes. 1829. 66 1830. Moses P. Durkee.
1831. Moses P. Durkee. Benj. B. French.
IS32.
Austin Corbin.
1833. Benj. B. French, Seth Richards. IS34. Josiah Stevens, Jr. Amasa Edes.
I835.
1836. Josiah Stevens, Jr., James Breck.
1837. Josiah Stevens, Jr., Jeremiah D. Nettleton.
1838. Josiah Stevens, Jr., Alvin Hatch.
1839. Jeremiah D. Nettleton, John B. Stowell.
IS40. Albin Hatch, Josiah Forsaith.
1841. Zina Goldthwaite.
1842. Zina Goldthwaite, Amos Little.
1843. Amos Little, Silas Metcalf.
1844. Silas Metcalf. Nathan Mudget.
1845. James Hall, Bela Nettleton.
1846. James Hall, Nathan White.
1847. Nathan White. Stephen Parker.
1848. Nathaniel C. Todd, Edward Wyman.
1849. Nathaniel C. Todd, David Allen.
1850. David Allen,
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1850. Nathan Mudget.
1865. Shepherd L. Bowers.
1851. Bela Nettleton,
1866. Dexter Richards, Himan A. Averill.
Edmund Wheeler.
1852. Edmund Wheeler, Ralph Metcalf.
1867. Himan A. Averhill, Charles Emerson.
1853. Ralph Metcalf, Henry G. Carleton.
1868. Benj. F. Sawyer, John Cooper.
1854. Mason Hatch, Benj. F. Sawyer.
1869. Benj. F. Sawyer, John Cooper.
1855. Mason Hatch, Benj. F. Sawyer.
1870. Dexter Richards, Orren Osgood.
1856. John Trask,
Jabez Thompson.
1857. John Trask, Thomas Sanborn.
1872. Ezra T. Sibley, Perley S. Coffin.
1873. Perley S. Coffin, Eleazer C. Converse.
1874. Voted not to send.
1875. Eben L. Rowell, Halsey C. Leavitt, Levi W. Barton.
1876. Eben L. Rowell, Alexander V. Hitchcock, Levi W. Barton.
1877. Alexander V. Hitchcock, Levi W. Barton, George H. Fairbanks.
1878. Himan A. Averill, George F. Whitney, 2d, Jeremiah S. Elkins.
Uriah Wilcox was the delegate to the convention that form- ed the present state constitution.
Bela Nettleton and Nathan Mudget were delegates to the convention called to revise the state constitution in 1850.
Dexter Richards, Levi W. Barton, and John B. Cooper were delegates to the constitutional convention in 1876.
Nathan Mudget and Dexter Richards have been councillors. Uriah Wilcox, David Allen, Austin Corbin, Jeremiah D. Nettleton, and Levi W. Barton have been senators.
The following are a few of the natives and former residents of Newport who have represented other towns in legislatures. Others will be found in the Genealogy :
1871. Orren Osgood, Ezra T. Sibley.
1858. Thomas Sanborn, John H. Hunton.
1859. Paul J. Wheeler, John H. Hunton. 1860. Paul J. Wheeler, Samuel H. Edes. 1861. Paul J. Wheeler, William Nourse.
1862. Paul J. Wheeler, William Nourse. 1863. Levi W. Barton, Calvin Wilcox.
1864. Levi W. Barton, Calvin Wilcox.
1865. Dexter Richards,
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OFFICERS.
Sam'l C. Baldwin, Plymouth, Mass. Samuel M. Wheeler, Dover, N. H., Geo. Dustin, Peterborough, N. H. speaker of the house. Moses R. Emerson, Claremont, N. H. Simeon Wheeler, Jr., Norfolk, Va. Ch's H. Fletcher, Blackstone, Mass. Francis White, Vt. Joel McGregor, Whitefield, N. H. George E. Jenks, Concord, N. H.,
Daniel Nettleton, Wilmot, N. H. 1873. Josiah Stevens, Jr., Concord, N. H. Luther J. Fletcher, Lowell, Mass. Mason W. Tappan, Bradford, N. H.
Ralph Metcalf, Governor of New Hampshire. Simon Brown, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. Edwin O. Stanard, Lieutenant Governor of Missouri. Edmund Burke, Member of Congress. Mason W. Tappan,
Edwin O. Stanard, 66
SELECTMEN.
1769. Samuel Hurd, Jesse Wilcox, Amos Hall.
1770. Jesse Wilcox, Ezra Parmelee, Jesse Lane.
1771. Robert Lane, Jesse Wilcox, Samuel Hurd.
1772. Benjamin Giles, Jesse Wilcox, Amos Hall.
1773. Aaron Buell, Jesse Wilcox, Samuel Hurd.
1774. Josiah Stevens, Samuel Hurd, Jesse Wilcox. 1775. Josiah Stevens, Aaron Buell, Jesse Lane.
1776. Josiah Stevens, Aaron Buell, Samuel Hurd. 1777. Jesse Lane, Jedediah Reynolds, Ezra Parmelee.
1778. Aaron Buell, Samuel Hurd, Uriah Wilcox. 1779. Benjamin Giles, Aaron Buell, Ezra Parmelee.
1780. Benjamin Giles, Elias Bascom, Samuel Hurd.
1781. Aaron Buell, Elias Bascom, Ezra Parmelee.
1782. Aaron Buell. Elias Bascom, Uriah Wilcox.
1783. Jesse Lane, Jedediah Reynolds, Phineas Chapin.
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