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 HON. JOSEPH D. WEEKS.

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��tendance of about fifty scholars. Her- bert F. Norris of Epping, Democratic candidate for Speaker of the House of Representatives at the late session of the Legislature, was principal of this Acad- emy in 1873 and 1874.

Mr. Weeks entered Dartmouth College in 1857, graduating in 1861, his brother being a member of the same class, which also numbered among its members Wil- liam J. Tucker, now an eminent Ortho- dox clergyman of New York city, for- merly of Manchester, who was recently elected one of the Trustees of the Col- lege, George A. Marden and Edward T. Rowell, now joint editors and proprie- tors of the Lowell Courier, Henry M. Putney of the Manchester Mirror, and George A. Bruce, now Mayor of Somer- ville, Mass. Mr. Weeks was a diligent and faithful student, taking good rank in his class. Like a large share of the young men who have been students at Dartmouth, he passed his winters while n college in the occupation of teaching.

��The first winter, that of 1857-8, he taught the school in his own district, at Canaan k, Street," the next at East Leb- anon, the third at Wellfleet, Mass., and the fourth in the " Littleworth" District, so called, in the city of Dover.

Immediately after graduating from col- lege, in the summer of 1861, he commenc- ed the study of law in the office of Samuel M. Wheeler and Joshua G. Hall, then partners in practice, in Dover, where he remained about two years. He then passed a year in attendance at the Har- vard Law School in Cambridge, and completed his study preparatory to ad- mission to the bar, in his father's office with Mr. Blodgett. He was admitted to Grafton County bar, at Haverhill, at the September Term in 1864. He soon after went west and located for a year at Janesville, Wis., but not fancying the western country as a place of residence, he returned home in the spring of 1866 and opened an office at East Canaan, where he engaged in the practice of his

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