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 2/0 GUXX. IIAI>L,<H k. GUNN, LEVI J., son of Levi and Delia Dickinson Gunn, was born in Conway, Franklin county, June 2, 1830. He ob- tained his education in the public schools. Early in life he turned his attention to manufacturing, and his first connection in business was with Charles H. Amidon, at Greenfield, in 1861. In 1-S68 a company was organized under the name of Miller's Falls Company, for the manufacture of hardware, of which he has been treasurer for twenty-one years. Mr. Gunn was married in Sunderland, October 5, 1853, to Esther C, daughter of Cephas and Miranda C. Graves. Of this union was one child : Levi V. Gunn. Mr. Gunn has been called to serve his town in various municipal offices, select- man, assessor, etc. He was elected to the state Senate in 18S5, and re-elected in 18S6. Me was a member of the Republican state central committee nine years, and also served as a member of the governor's council two years. lie is a director of the Franklin County National Bank, and trustee and member of the investment committee of Greenfield Savings Bank. HADLOCK, Harvey De.ming, was born at Cranberry Isles, Hancock county. Me., on the 7th day of October, 1S45, on the estate which has been in the possession of his family for three generations. His father, ('apt. Edwin Hadlock, was born at Cranberry Isles, January 17, 1S14. anil in early Hie followed the sea. He married Mary Ann Stanwood, born July 22, 1816, by whom he had a family consisting b three sons : William Edwin, Oilberi and Harvey Deming. The education of Mr. Hadlock up to November, 1856, was under the instruction of Ins mother J who was a woman of superior intellect anil education, and in the schools of his native place. His parents then moved to Bucksp'ort, Maine, so that he could enjoy the educational advantages afforded by the East Maine Conference Seminary at that place-, in which institu- tion and under private instructors he pur- sued an advanced course of classical study which he supplemented with a partial scientific course in the Maine State Semi- nary (now Bates College), and in the scien- tific department of Dartmouth College. In September, 1863, he commenced his legal studies in the office of Hon. Samuel F. Humphrey, at Bangor, Maine, and such was his application, that on the 6th day of January, 1865, having pursued the requi- site course of study (designed as a three years' course), and passed the required ex- amination, he was in that city, admitted an attorney and counselor of the supreme judicial court of Maine, and commenced practice at Bucksport, where he continued to reside until 1868, with the exception of six months in the fall and winter of 1865 and '66, when he studied civil and maritime law at New Orleans, under the direction of the late Christian Roselius. He then moved tu Boston, where, on the 7th of October* 1 868, he was admitted an attorney and counselor of the supreme judicial court nt Massachusetts, and commenced practit e in that city. HARVEY D. HADLOCK. In the spring of 1869 he was admitted to practice in the courts of New York, and was engaged as counsel in an important case- in the United States circuit court, which caused him to reside in New York until the following autumn. He then returned to