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 OUR GOVERNOR ELECT.

���OUB GOVEBNOB ELECT.

��Fifty years ago the gubernatorial chair of the State was occupied by one of its most distinguished citizens, a native and resident of the old town of Epping — William Plumer — a man of marked abil- ity, who had represented New Hamp- shire in the Federal Senate with honor to himself and credit to the State. A few weeks since our people, in their sover- reign capacity, made choice of another native and resident of Epping to suc- ceed Governor Cheney, as their Chief Magistrate, in June next.

Benjamin F. Prescott, Governor- elect, is the son and only child of Nathan Gove Prescott — a descendant of Capt. Jonathan Prescott who fought with Pep-

��perell at the siege of Louisburg — an Ep- ping farmer who married Miss Betsey H. Richards, daughter of Capt. Benjamin Richards of Madbury. The Prescott homestead, where the Governor-elect was born on the 26th of February, 1833, is situated something more than a mile to the north west of the pleasant little vil- lage of Epping Corner, and less than a mile from the Plumer mansion. Here young Prescott passed his life, until about fifteen years of age, in daily labor upon the farm, with the exception of the time occupied in attending the brief terms of the district school, developing by hon- est toil the superior physical powers with which he was endowed, and laying the

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