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 HARDY. HARLOW. 28- he was made treasurer, which office he still retains. He served as cashier of the Miller's Rivet- Bank, eleven years, until its conversion to the Miller's River National Bank, of which he was made president, which office he still holds, having been an officer of the two institutions thirty-three years. He was a member of the state Senate for the years 1879 and '80, and was a dele- gate to the national Republican conven- tion, at Chicago, in 1880. He has been interested in, and connected with, two of the principal manufacturing corporations of the town, and has seen the town of his adoption double in wealth and population. He was active in forming the Second Unitarian church, and in building the beautiful edifice in which that society worships. While residing in New Salem, on the 6th of September, r842.be married Maria P. Taft, of Dudley, Worcester county, daugh- ter of Reuben and Prudence (Healey) Taft, by whom he had four children, two of whom died in infancy — the others still live : Ella Maria (now wife of Col. A. L. Newman, president of the National Bank of the Commonwealth of Boston), and Wil- liam Bridge Harding, formerly teller of the Miller's River National Bank, but now a resident of Denver, Col. HARDY, John Henry, son of John and Hannah (Farley) Hardy, was born in Hollis, Hillsborough county, N. H., Feb- ruary 2, 1S47. He attended the Hollis common schools, fitted for college at Appleton Academies at Mount Vernon, N. H., and New Ipswich, N. H. He entered Dartmouth College, 1866, and was graduated 1870, work- ing his way by teaching during vacations. He attended Harvard law school, studied law with R. M. Morse, Jr., Boston, while he was engaged in teaching in Chauncey Hall school, and was admitted to the Suf- folk bar, January, 1872. Mr. Hardy formed a partnership with George W. Morse, the firm name being Morse & Hardy. This relation continued two years, after which he formed a partner- ship with Samuel J. Elder and Thomas W. Proctor, the firm name being Hardy, Elder & Proctor, which continued until his ele- vation to the bench, May, 1885, when he was appointed associate justice of the municipal court of the city of Boston. This position he still holds. His appoint- ment was eminently a wise one, as his mental balance better fits him for the bench than the bar. He enlisted at fifteen years of age in the 15th regiment, New Hampshire volun- teers, and was at the siege of Port Hudson. Judge Hardy was married in Littleton, August 30, 1871, to Anna J. Conant, a lineal descendant of Roger Conant, who first settled at Salem, in colonial days, and who was the daughter of Levi and Anna (Whitney Mead) Conant. Of this union are two children : John H., Jr., and Horace D. Hardy. Judge Hardy was elected to the House of Representatives from the Arlington district, 1883, and was counsel for the town of Arlington, 1873 to '85. He is a member of the New England Historic Genealog- ical Society. He worships with the Unita- rian Society. HARLOW, RUFUS KENDRICK, son of Major Branch and Lurany (Keith) Har- low, was born March 28, 1834, in Middle- borough, Plymouth county. He attended the public schools, and prepared for college at Pierce Academy in his native town. In 1865 he was gradu- ated from Amherst College, and in 1868 RUFUS K. HARLOW. from the theological seminary in Bangor, Maine. He was ordained to the gospel ministry in his home church, the Central Congrega- tional, in Middleborough, October 15, 1868,
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