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��New Hampshire in 1784..

��ley in Ireland, and which resulted in the release of the captain.

Although deprived of educational facilities in his early youth, he has been all his life and is at present a diligent scholar and an inveterate reader. He was the first Catholic elected to any position in the city of Concord, and, if elected by the legisla- ture, will be the first Catholic to hold the postiou of councillor in this state. One of his brothers. Rev. T. P. Linehan, is a respected resident of

��Broad and liberal in his views, Mr. Linehan has been an active, earnest worker in the Republican ranks, and identified at home and abroad in any movement for the benefit of hi& fellow-men of all races and creeds. A laborer all his life, he has known what it was to work the year round from dawn to twilight, and any just movement for the benefit of the toil- ers will have his voice, and where he can use it, his vote.

Mr. Linehan is specially interested

��Portland, Me., being rector of the in early Irish history, and on that

��cathedral there.

He married, in January, 1864, Mary E. Pendergast, and his family consists of one daughter and three sons. His daughter took the veil in St. Elizabeth's convent at Portland, Me., in September, 188.5, in the order of the Sisters of Mercy. His oldest son, after two years' apprenticeship

��subject is high authority, from his re- search and indefatigable labors.

He is a graceful writer, and articles from his pen have been reproduced not only throughout this country but in Great Britain and her widespread colonies. He is still in the prime of manhood, and his friends look for- ward confidentlv to his further rec-

��in the dry goods business in Minne- ognition by the party of his choice, apolis, is now in Boston with Brown, In closing this sketch we would.

Durrell & Co. ; one works with his acknowledge our indebtedness to our

father in the stoi'e ; and the other, a contemporary, the Manchester Bud-

lad of nine years, is at school. get, for much of our information.

��NEW HAMPSHIRE IN 1784.

��The treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United States of America was signed in Paris, Sep- tember 3, 1783. The constitution, containing bill of rights and form of government agreed upon by the dele- gates of the people of the state of New Hampshire, in a convention held at Concord on the first Tuesday of June, 1783, had been submitted to and approved by the people of the state, and had been established by

��their delegates in convention, October 31, 1783. It was to go into effect in June, 1784.

On the second day of June, 1784, the newly elected legislature of the state (perhaps as distinguished a body of men as ever gathered together within the limits of the state) assem- bled at Concord, and proceeded to organize. According to the consti- tution, the new senate was to be com- posed of twelve members, five of

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