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 HON. EDWAKD H. ROLLINS.

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��and 1862. Commissioner of Internal Rev- enue under President Johnson, and is now President of the Centennial Bank at Philadelphia, though still holding his residence in Somersworth.

James Rollins, grandfather of Edward H., settled upon the farm in Rollinsford which has since remained the family homestead. He was the father of thir- teen children, seven sons and six daugh- ters. Of these Dai.iel Rollins, the eighth child, born May 30, 1797, who married Mary, eldest daughter of Ebenezer Plum- mer of Rollinsford, was the father of Ed- ward H. He succeeded to the home- stead, but taking the "Maine fever," which was for a time prevalent in this section, sold out, with a view to making his home in that State. He soon repent- ed his action, and, returning, repurchased that portion of the homestead lying east of the highway, and erected a dwelling

��opposite the old family mansion, where he lived a life of sturdy industry, rearing a family of six children, four sons and two daughters, and died Jan. 7, 1864.

Edward H. Rollins was the eldest of the children. He was born Oct. 3, 1824, being now about fifty-three years of age. He lived at home, laboring upon the farm in the summer season, attend- ing the district school in winter, and get- ting an occasional term's attendance at the South Berwick Academy and Frank- lin Academy in Dover, until seventeen years of age, when he went to Concord and engaged as druggist's clerk in the well-known apothecary store of John Mc- Daniels. He retained his situation some three or four years, industriously apply- ing himself to the details of the business. He then went to Boston, where he was engaged in similar service until 1847, when, having thoroughly mastered the

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