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��THE DEAD OF 1878.

��TEE DEAD OF 1878.

��During the year just past the "grim messenger" has summoned fully the usual number of the world's good and great — useful and honorable men in the various walks of life — from the scenes of earthly labor to higher spheres in the world beyond. And while princes and potentates, statesmen, scholars, heroes, poets and divines — men of world-wide distinction and honor have been called away in other lands and states, New Hampshire has lost no inconsiderable number of her distinguished citizens, representative men in the different pro- fessions and callings.

From the ranks of the legal profession in the State, a number of well known men. have been taken during the year. Among them may be mentioned William H. Y. Hackett of Portsmouth, long prominent in public and official life as well as at the bar; William B. Small of Newmarket, late member of Congress, and George William Burleigh of Somers- worth. all men of ability and distinction.

In the record of names of New Hamp- shire clergymen, who departed this life during the year, we find those of Rev. Nathaniel Bouton of Concord, eminent as a historian as well as a leading divine of the Congregational denomination ; Eev. Hosea Quinby, D. D., of Milton, a prominent Free Will Baptist; Rev. Lem- uel Willis of Warner, one of the oldest and most efficient members of the Uni- versalist clergy in the State, and Rev. Michael Lucy of Exeter, a Catholic priest of high character and reputation.

The medical profession has lost a good- ly number of its members ; the most dis- tinguished of whom was Dr. Albert Smith of Peterborough, long a member of the faculty of the Dartmouth Medical School and one of the most learned and experienced physicians in the country. Others iu the list worthy of note areDrs.

��John Morrison of Alton and John McNab of Woodsville, the latter dying at the ad- vanced age of ninety-five years and re- taining his intellectual and physical ac- tivity in a wonderal degree almost to the day of his death.

Among our well known educators de- ceased in 1878. were Lorenzo D. Barrows, D. D., President of the N. H. Conference Seminary at Tilton, who was also a prom- inent clergyman of the Methodist denom- ination, and Ephraim Knight for many years, Professor of Mathematics at the New London Institution. The more prominent representatives of the press, who departed this life during the year were the venerable John T. Gibbs of Do- ver, who published the Dover Gazette nearly forty years, and William H. Gil- more of Henniker, formerly of the Man- chester Democrat and Journal of Agri- culture, and subsequently, for many years, agricultural editor of the People at Concord.

Of the railway managers of the State, the two ablest, most notable and success- ful, whose enterprise, energy and sagac- ity had contributed more than that of any score of other men to the extension of our railway lines and the consequent development of our material resources — ex-Governor Onslow Stearns of Concord, President of the Northern and Concord roads, and John E. Lyon of the Boston, Concord and Montreal, (who although a resident of Boston was to all practical intents and purposes a New Hampshire man), both made their exit from earthly life during the year.

Among prominent manufacturers dy- ing in 1878 were Alexander H. Tilton of Tilton and Nicholas V. Whitehouse of Rochester; among the representative farmers of the State deceased, may be named Col. Ezra J. Glidden of Unity and Arthur Clougu of Canterbury.

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