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 NEW LONDON CENTENNIAL ADDRESS.

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��Ministers who have gone out from New London :

Enoch Hunting (C. B.), ordained March 15, 18 14.

Benjamin Woodbury (Cong.), or- dained about 1820.

Theophilus B. Adams (C. B.), or- dained May 29, 1 82 1.

Joshua Clement (C. B.), ordained about 1834.

Valentine E. Bunker (C. B.), licensed April 8, 1836.

Francis A. Gates (C. B.), licensed May, 1837.

Robert Stinson (Universalist), or- dained about 1840.

Sylvan Hunting (Unitarian).

James Phillips (Methodist).

Lewis Phillips (Christian).

Dura P. Morgan (C. B.), ordained about 1872.

LAWYERS OF NEW LONDON.

Stephen C. Badger, a native of Warner, N. H., graduated at Dart- mouth College in 1823 ; studied law with Henry B. Chase, of Warner ; commenced practice in New London in 1826, where he remained till 1833, a period of eight years, when he re- moved to Concord ; was clerk of the courts for Merrimack county ; police justice for Concord ; a civil engineer ; died at Concord, October 29, 1872. He married Miss Sophronia Evans, of Warner.

Walter P. Flanders, also a native of Warner, N. H., graduated at Dart- mouth, 1 83 1 ; studied law with Hon. John D. Willard, of Troy, N. Y., and Hon. George W. Nesmith, of Frank- lin, N. H. ; commenced practice in New London in 1834 ; was a member of the N. H. Legislature, from New London, in 1841 and 1842 ; 'and in 1849 ne removed to Milwaukee, Wis., where he still resides. He married Miss Susan E. Greeley, of this town, youngest daughter of Jonathan Gree- ley, Esq.

George W. Everett, a native of New London, born Nov. 19, 18 19 ; was educated at the public school and acad- emy of this town ; studied law with Walter P. Flanders of this place ; was

��admitted to the bar in 1847, and soon began practice here. He was a mem- ber of the legislature, from this town, in the years 1852 and 1856 ; and was solicitor for Merrimack county for five years, from 1856 to 1861. In 1862 he received a commission as major of the ninth regiment of volunteer militia, which was ordered to the south-west ; remained with the regiment one year, showing himself a brave and faithful officer. In August, 1863, as his regi- ment was coming up the Mississippi river from Vicksburg, Miss., he was taken dangerously ill, and stopping at Cincinatti, Ohio, he sank rapidly and died on 27th of August, 1863, just one year and a day from the date of his commission. His remains were brought to his native town and buried .with masonic honors. He married Miss Ellen T.. Lane, of Gloucester, Mass.

Edward B. Knight, who was a brother of Professor Ephraim Knight of this town, graduated at Dartmouth in 1 86 1 ; studied law with George W. Everett, of this place ; was admitted to the bar in 1864, and commenced practice at Dover, N. H., but soon re- moved to Virginia, where he still resides in the practice of his profes- sion.

I might perhaps, without impropriety, have mentioned my own name as one who went out from New London, and who has been engaged in the study, and the practice, and the administra- tion of the law. That has thus far been my life work, and whatever of success I may have achieved it has been simply by patient toil and steady •perseverance towards a single object, and by practicing upon the lessons of economy and industry, which I learned in my youth here in New London. When I heard that the good people of my good old native town were to have this centennial reunion, it met with my most unqualified approval, and when I received the summons, from your ex- ecutive committee, to come here today and speak to you, I cheerfully obeyed without a single excuse, and I come today without a single apology, and only regret that I have been able to

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