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 THE

��GRANITE MONTHLY,

A NEW HAMPSHIRE MAGAZINE

Devoted to Literature, Biography, History, and State Progress.

��Vol. vn.

��DECEMBER 1884.

��No. 12.

��DANIEL LOTHROP.

��By John N. McClintock, A. M.

The fame, character and prosperity influences — broadest inasmuch as it in - of a city have often depended upon its terpenetrates the hfe of our whole peo- merchants, — burghers they were once pie — proceeds from the lifework of one

��called to distinguish them from haughty princes and nobles. Through the en- terprise of the common citizens, Venice, Genoa, Antwerp, and London have be- come famous, and have controlled the

��of the merchants of Boston, knouTi by his name and his work to the entire EngUsh speaking world : Daniel Loth- rop, of the famous firm of D. Lothrop & Co., publishers — the people's

��destinies of nations. New England, publishing house. Mr. Lothrop is a

originally settled by sturdy and liberty- good representative of this early New

loving yeomen and free citizens of free England fusion of race, temperament,

Enghsh cities, was never a congenial fibre, conscience and brain. He is a

home for the patrician, with inherited direct descendant of John Lowthroppe,

feudal privileges, but has welcomed the who, in the thirty-seventh year of

��thrifty Pilgrim, the Puritan, the Scotch Covenanter, the French Huguenot, the Ironsides soldiers of the great Crom- well. The men and women of this fusion have shaped our civilization. New England gave its distinctive char- acter to the American colonies, and

��Henry VIII. (1545), was a gentleman of quite extensive landed estates, both in Cherry Burton (four miles removed from Lowthorpe), and in various other parts of the country.

Lowthorpe is a small parish in the Wapentake of Dickering, in the East

��finally to the nation. New England in- Riding of York, four and a half miles

fluences still breathe from the Atlantic northeast from Great Driftield. It is a

to the Pacific, and from the great lakes perpetual curacy in the archdeaconry'

to Mexico ; and Boston, still the focus of York. This parish gave name to the

of the New England idea, leads na- family of Lowthrop, Lothrop, or La-

tional movement and progress. throp. The Church, which was dedi-

Perhaps one of the broadest of these cated to St. Martin, and had for one of

��Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1884, by John N. McClintock and Company, in the ofiSce of the

Libranan 01 Congress at Washington.

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