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 JACOB H. GALLINGER

, of Concord, is of Dutch ancestry, his paternal grandfather having emigrated from Holland previous to the Revolutionary War, first settling in New York and afterwards going to Canada; was born on a farm in Cornwall, Ontario, March 28, 1837; received a common school and academic education; was a printer in early life; studied medicine and was graduated in 1858, and followed the profession of medicine and surgery in the city of his present residence from April, 1862, until he entered public life, having a practice which extended beyond the limits of his State; was connected with various medical societies and made frequent contributions to medical literature; was a member of the house of representatives of New Hampshire in 1872–73 and in 1891; was a member of the constitutional convention in 1876; was a member of the State senate in 1878, 1879, and 1880, being president of that body the last two years; was surgeon-general of New Hampshire with the rank of brigadier-general in 1879–80; received the honorary degree of A. M. from Dartmouth College; was chairman of the Republican State committee from 1882 to 1890, when he resigned the place, but was again elected to the position in 1898; was chairman of the delegation from his State to the Republican national convention of 1888, and made a speech seconding the nomination of Benjamin Harrison; was elected to the Forty-Ninth and Fiftieth Congresses as a Republican, and declined renomination to the Fifty-First Congress; was elected United States Senator to succeed Henry W. Blair, and took his seat March 4, 1891, and was reëlected in 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.