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32 THE GRANITE MONTHLY.

, born May 21, 1843, in Cabot. Vt.; graduated at Middlebury (Vt.) College; read law with Hon. E. A. Hibbard; was admitted in April, 1872; settled in Laconia. He is president of board of education, chairman Democratic state central committe, widower, Mason, and a Unitarian.

. born Jan. 24, 1848, in Laconia, then Meredith Bridge; entered Dartmouth College; midshipman three years; since 1871 a manufacturer of stockings; married, Unitarian, a Mason, an Odd Fellow. K. of P., K. of H., and G. A. R. At present he is a manufacturer in Columbia, S. C.

, lawyer, of Plymouth, was born May 18. 1851, in Campton; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1873; studied law and settled in Plymouth in 1876, in which year he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. He is a member of the law firm of Burleigh & Adams, is married, a Mason, and a Methodist.

, of Fitzwilliam, was born in Buckfield, Maine; received a common school education in Auburn; removed to Natick, Mass., in 1858; learned the shoe trade. He enlisted in April, 1861, under the President's first call for volunteers, in Co. H. 13th Reg. M. V. M.; was encamped at Fort Independence, Boston Harbor, from June 29 to July 29, when, with his regiment, he left for the front; was in the army of the Potomac on the extreme right, where, from exposure, while on picket, he contracted a lung fever from which he has never fully recovered. He crossed the Potomac with the advance of McClellan, in the spring of '62, at Williamsport, under command of General Banks; marched to Martinsburg, thence to Winchester; the regiment was then ordered to Join McDowel on the Rappahannock; marched as far as Warrenton Junction, when he was ordered to Washington. D. C., and was discharged by order of Gen. Wadsworth, when he returned to his former home, Natick, Mass. He married, April 20, 1863, Miss Abbie L. Hill, of Fitzwilliam; he has two sons. He is a Congregationalist.

, of Jaffrey, was born at Jaffrey June 14, 1856, and has always lived there. He is a farmer; graduated at Dartmouth, class '78, and also at the Albany Law School, class of '80; has been chairman of the board of supervisors in Jaffrey for the past two years. He is married, and is a member of Charity Lodge F. and A. Masons.

, of Lisbon, was born in New Haimpton, Jan. 10, 1817; lived there until he was about five years old, when his parents moved to Wentworth and lived there until he was sixteen years old, then he went to New Chester and commenced the mercantile business under Maj. Ebenezer Kimball; went into trade there in 1837, and remained until fall of 1839; went into trade in spring of 1841, at Haverhill, in company with John L. Rix, Esq., and remained there until the fall of 1849. He then moved to Lisbon and engaged in trade and lumber business in company with his brother, Greenleaf Cummings, and James Allen, Esq. Mr. Allen dying, in 1853 the company was changed, and he continued in same business until 1861. Since 1861 he has been engaged in manufacturing and farming, a portion of the time. His education was mainly at the "common district school," with a few terms at a high school or academy. Being on the "off side" in politics, he has never held many public offices; was elected representative from Lisbon in 1856; was elected senator for District No. 12, in 1877 and 1878; and again elected representative for the next legislature; served in the commission to investigate the N. H. Asylumn for the Insane in 1877 and on the tax commission in 1878; has been president of the National Bank of Newbury, at Wells River, Vt., for the past ten years; has been town treasurer for many years. He has belonged to the Masonic fraternity for about twenty-five years, and has taken all the degrees to and including the Knights Templar; has held all positions in Lodge and Chapter offices; also that of Grand High King in the Grand Chapter of N. H. Was married in 1843, and has a wife and two daughters living; belongs to no religious denomination, but contributes to the support of all societies that he believes are doing good.