Page:The Granite Monthly Volume 2.djvu/141

 THE

��GBANITE MONTHLY.

��A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, HIST OR Y AND STATE PROGRESS.

��VOL. II.

��DECEMBER, 1878.

��NO. 5.

��HON. MOODY CURRIER.

��PThe following sketch is from the history of Boscawen, by C. C. Coffin, recently published.]

��The subject of this sketch was born in the town of Boscawen, April 22. 1806. At an early age, his parents removed to Dun- barton, and thence to Bow, where his early years were passed on a farm, at tending the district school about six weeks during the winter. He had an in- satiable desire for information, and de- voured all the books he could lay hi3 hands on, reading through the long win- ter evenings by the light of a pitch pine knot, or a tallow candle.

He fitted for college at Hopkinton Academy, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1S34, Hon. Daniel Clark of Manches- ter, of the U. S. District Court for this District, being one of his classmates.

Soon after leaving college he taught school in Concord, and, in company with Hon. Asa Fowler, edited the New Hamp- shire Literary Gazette. He was after- wards principal of the Hopkinton Acad- emy for one year, and in 1836 became principal of the High School at Lowell, Mass. He held that position for five years, and in 1841 removed to Manches- ter, where he has since continued to re-

��ride. During his residence at Hopkinton and Lowell he studied law, and on going to Manchester was admitted to the Bar, and became a law partner with Hon. George W. Morrison. In 1842 he pur- chased an interest in a weekly newspa- per, the Manchester Democrat, and de- voted a part of his time to editorial la- bors for about a year. His partnership with Mr. Morrison was dissolved in 1S43, but he continued in the practice of his profession independently until 1848. In that year the Amoskeag Bank was or- ganized, and he became its cashier and has continued in the banking business since that time.

Upon the organization of the Amoskeag Savings Bank, in 1S52, he became its Treasurer, and still holds the office. When the Amoskeag National Bank was organized to succeed the old Amoskeag Bank, in 1864, he became its President. He has been a Director in the People's Bank at Manchester since it was organ- ized in 1874; a Director in the Blodgett Edge Tool Company during the existence of the corporation ; President and Trea-

�� �