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��ing a business education, and is at residences in the city. Still in the

this time clerk for his father in the office prime of life, his many friends have

•of the Edge Tool works. The younger, no reason to doubt that in the future,

George Van Ness, born in August, 1S69, as in the past, he will be adequate to

■is attending the public schools. His any responsibility which may devolve

house is pleasantly situated on Main upon him. ■street, and is one of the desirable

��PORTRAITS FOR POSTERITY.

��In the council-chamber in the state 'house, at Concord, there are arranged upon the walls the portraits of all the governors of New Hampshire, since its organization as a state. In the senate-chamber above are the portraits ■of many of the presiding officers of that body. In the state library are gathered, very appropriately, the por- traits of the chief-justices of the state. In the rotunda, or Doric hall, are the portraits of several heroes of the state in the war of the Rebellion. In the representatives' halJ, above, are the portraits of distinguished sons of New Hampshire, generals in the Revolution and in the war of 181 2, editors and statesmen, grouped around the father ■OF HIS COUNTRY. More than one hun- dred portraits are already in position within the state house, and others are in preparation.

In the art gallery of Dartmouth College, at Hanover, there are over one hundred portraits of members of the faculty, benefactors of the college, and distinguished graduates.

At Phillips Exeter Academy there are already in position forty-two por- traits.

Who can estimate the satisfaction and gratification aflbrded to coming generations by these magnificent collec- tions of portraits ! The student at Hanover and Exeter will try to emulate the great and good men who formed their characters within the classic shades of those institutions ; he will more fully realize and appreciate the .golden opportunities within his reach.

��Every citizen of the state, of high or low degree, can not but look with pride to the state house, embellished as it is with portraits of men who have made the history of the commonwealth.

To one man is chiefly due the credit of securing for all time these three collections. Through the patriotism, energy, perseverance, industry and research of Hon. Benjamin F. Pres- COTT, of Epping, a student of Phillips Exeter Academy, a graduate of Dart- mouth College, secretary of the state, and governor, have these portraits been gathered, and to him all honor is due for his great work. Eleven years of active and unremunera- tive labor has he devoted to this cause, carried on correspondence the most voluminous, and made visits almost innumerable. Paintings have been obtained from the most unex- pected sources, and the most distant localities.

Herewith is given a list of the por- traits already secured through Mr. Prescott's instrumentality :

STATE HOUSE. PROVINCIAL GOVERNORS.

Simon Bradstreet. Original artist unknown ; copy by Adna Tenney from a portrait now in the possession of the proprietors of the Museum in Boston, Mass.

Joseph Dudley, governor in 16S6 and in i 702. A copy from a painting in the rooms of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

AViLLiAM Burnet, governor from

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