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��where he was born October 27, 1845. His ancestor, Rev. Francis Worces- ter, born in Bradford, Mass, June 7, KIDS, married Abigail Carleton, of Rowley, in 1720; settled in vSand- wich, Mass., in 1740, as a Congrega- tional minister ; moved to Hollis in 1750, where he died October 14, 1783. He was an evangelist, author, and poet. Captain Noah Worcester, the youngest son of the Rev. Francis Worcester, was born at Sandwich, Mass., Oct. 4, 1735 ; married Lydia Taylor, daughter of Abraham Taylor, Feb. 22, 1757. He was captain of the Hollis militia company in 1775, and of the Hollis company at Cam- bridge in December of that year. He enlisted in the Hollis company in the Rhode Island Expedition in 1778. He was town-clerk and first selectman in 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778, and 1779 ; chairman of the Hollis Committee of Safety in 1777, 1778, and 1779 ; jus- tice of the peace for forty years from 1777; member of the Constitutional Convention of 1778 ; moderator of the Hollis. annual town-meeting fifteen different years ; and was an active member of the Hollis church for sixt}' years. Four of his sons became clergymen. He died at. Hollis, Aug. 13, 1817.

Jesse Worcester, second son of Capt. Noah Worcester, was born in Hollis, April 30, 1761. He enlisted in July, 1776, for the Ticonderoga expedition. In 1777 he was in gar- rison at Portsmouth. In 1778 he joined the expedition to Rhode Island, and two years later he enlisted in the Continental army. In June, 1782, he married Sarah Parker, of Hollis. They were the parents of nine sons and six daughters, who all lived to

��adult age, — fourteen of them becom- ing teachers. Seven of the nine sons aspired to a college education : two graduated at Yale, three at Harvard. One son was the lexicographer, Joseph E. Worcester, ll. d. Another son was Hon. Samuel T.Worcester. Mr. Worcester was for many years a teacher in Bedford and Hollis, and an occasional contributor to the public journals of the day. He died Jan. 20, 1834. Hon. John N. Worcester, fifth son 'of Jesse Worcester, settled in Hollis as a farmer. He was state councillor in 1858 and 1859,

Hon. Franklin Worcester fitted for college at the New Ipswich Appleton academy, and graduated at Dartmouth college in the class of 1870. He studied law at the Harvard law school, and was admitted to the Mid- dlesex bar upon examination. He then entered into business with his brothers at Hollis, and at Cambridge, Mass. They have a mill and cooper- age at Hollis, and about two hundred acres of land under cultivation, giv- ing employment to about forty per- sons. At Cambridge they have a furniture and carpet business, employ- ing seventeen hands. Their business has been largely developed by them- selves. He was a member of the New Hampshire house of representa- tives in 1877 and 1878, and chairman of the Committee on Agricultural College, 1878. He has held various town offices, and at present is chair- man of the Hollis school board.

Hon. Frank D. Currier, senator- elect from the Lebanon district, is a resident of Canaan, his native town, and is an influential lawyer and politi- cian. He is the oldest son of Hon. Horace S. and Emma (Plaistridge)

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