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��'HE GRANITE MONTHLY.

��to time, to the office which he still addressed the house on subjects that

holds. Soon after his appointment he had thoroughly considered, and it

he drafted and secured the enactment was understood that his remarks were

of the present law of the state relative likely to aid the members in reaching

to insurance companies of other states a wise and just conclusion, and other countries. This law estab- As one of the supervisors of the

lished the department of insurance, educational interests of Concord, Mr.

and has given to the people a degree Pillsbury was exceptionally intelligent,

of protection against the frauds and conscientious, and pains-taking. His

impositions of unreliable companies views on the general subject were com-

never before enjoyed in this state, and prehensive, and he kept himself in-

has brought into its treasury, by tax formed as to all real improvements in

��on insurance premiums, over one hun- dred and twenty-three thousand dol- lars, in addition to the compensation of the commissioner.

During the whole term of his office,

��methods of instruction. He discoun- tenanced shams, and labored faithfully to make the schools sources of knowl- edge, of discipline, and of virtue. To the other public trusts so honorably

��Mr. Pillsbury has worked quietly but held by the subject of this sketch, we

��assiduously to eliminate unreliable companies from our borders, and has carefully avoided the admission of all such as are not regarded as perfectly trustworthy. It is universally affirmed, by men familiar with the insurance business, that the commissioner of this state has administered his office with unusual skill and success, and his re-

��may add that of trustee of the State Industrial School. He has had a deep and abiding interest in this institution since its founding, and has given to it an active and efficient support.

We can only realize how pure and unselfish his labors of this character have been, when we reflect that Mr. Pillsbury has no children of his own

��ports are much sought for and often to kindle and feed his sympathies, but quoted and referred to as authority in that they spring from a general benev other states. The state may well con- gratulate itself on having had the con- tinued services, for fourteen years, of one so able and experienced in an office so intimately connected with the material interests of the people.

In 1S71 Mr. Pillsbury moved to Concord, and the estimation in which he is held in the community is attested by the fact that, during the twelve years of his residence at the capital, he has twice been elected to represent one of its wards in the legislature, and has been a member of its board of ed- ucation for seven years, and was pres- ident of the board at the time he tendered his resignation. When a member of the legislature, Mr. Pills- bury was eminently practical, and whenever he spoke was listened to with marked attention, for he only

��olence toward all children, of whatever condition in life. His only child was a daughter of rare mental activity and attainments, and of unusual sweetness of temper. She married Mr. J. S. Eveleth, of Beverly, Mass., where, af- ter a residence of nearly two years, she died of consumption, in the flower and promise of early womanhood, leaving two homes stricken and deso- late.

In this brief sketch we have uncon- sciously drawn a model citizen, — a man in all the relations of life faithful to the claims of duty — in the family, society, and the state — blameless ; be- nevolent without ostentation, patriotic without the claim of reward, and true to every trust.

" While we such precedents can boast at home, Keep thy Fabricius and thy Cato, Rome."

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