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council, and was president of that body in 1855. In 1857 he was a member of the state legislature. He is greatly interested in historical matters, and is the secretary and leading member of the Old Residents' Historical Association of Lowell, several volumes of the contributions of which have been published. He wrote a history of Lowell, which was printed in 1879 by Messrs. Estes & Lauriat, in their history of Middlesex county.

Henry H. Barnes, merchant tailor on Central street, was born in Hillsbo- rough, October 17, 1 815, and went to Lowell in 1829, where he learned his trade and has followed it ever since, occupying the same store for the last thirty-three years. He has witnessed the growth of the city from a population of 5000 to 60,000, and there is now but one man in business on Central street who was there when he came to town. Mr. Barnes is a son of the late Capt. Samuel Barnes, of HilLborough, and a grandson of Rev. Jonathan Barnes, the first settled minister of that town. The farm of two hundred acres, set apart for the minister upon the formation of the township, has remained in the hands of the family, and is now occupied by Samuel G., an elder brother of Mr. Barnes.

Joseph R. Hayes, a prominent druggist, and the oldest in business, in the city, with a single exception, is a son of the late Lemuel Hayes, of Barn- stead, and was born in that town in March, 181 7. He read medicine and taught school for several years at Wilmington, Delaware, after attaining his ma- jority, but came to Lowell and established himself in the drug business on Central street, in 1847, where he has since remained, devoting himself closely to business, in which he has l)een eminently successful. Mr. Hayes was mainly instrumental in securing the publication of the history of Barnstead.

Daniel Gage, who supplies the people of Lowell vvith ice, is a native of the town of Pelham, fifty-four years of age. He has been a resident of Lowell for the last twenty-eight years, for a portion of the time engaged in the whole- sale meat business, but for many years past in the ice trade, of which he has substantial control in the city. His ice is obtained from the Merrimack river. His houses have a storage capacity of 15,000 tons, and he has from fifteen to thirty men employed during the season. He is an energetic, successful and respected business man.

Samuel T. Manahan, born in Deering, March 13, 1805, has resided in Lowell since 1846. He was successfully engaged for many years in the meat and provision trade, on Merrimack street, at the stand now occupied by Ira M. Chase, another native of Deering, to whom he sold his business and retired some years since. While lesiding in Deering Mr. Manahan was for three years — in 1835-36-37 — the representative of that town in the New Hampshire legislature. Since his residence in Lowell he has served in both branches of the city government.

Col. Joseph S. Pollard was born in Plaistow in 181 1, and resided there until twenty-eight years ago, when he removed to Lowell. While in Plaistow he was a farmer, but was for several years engaged in the dry goods trade in Low- ell, and was also fourteen years a clerk in the Bo'^ton Custom House. He has been a member of both branches of the ctiy government, and of the Massa- chusetts legislature in 1857. In New Hampshire he represented Plaistow in the legislature in 1837 and 1838, and was for two years commander of the old Seventh N. H. Regiment, one of the most famous organizations under the old militia system. His son, Arthur G. Pollard, also a New Hampshire boy, born in Plaistow January 5, 1843, is now a prominent dry goods dealer, and suc- cessor to the business of Hocum Hosford & Co., in which firm he was a part- ner for several years previous to Mr. Hosford's death. He is prominent in

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