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��Coos in tJie Legislature.

��Hampsliire ; at Portland, Maine, and at Springfield, Pittsfield, Palmer, and South Franiingham, Massachusetts, on the Boston and Albany Railroad. His newsboys are upon all trains, and all impure literature is rigorously excluded from their sales.

His lite is fiill of business activi- ties. He is a director in a number of corporations ; among them is the Worcester, Nashua, and Rochester Railroad, now being reorganized, and in which he takes an active part.

He is a man of strong character, strictly upright in his business relations, public spirited, urbane in his manners, kind and sympathetic in his nature, has a wide circle of acquaintances and a strong corps of personal friends.

But to know a man fully, he must be seen in the retirement of his home, in

��the society of wife, children, and friends.

Mr. Armstrong is happy in his home and finds his keenest enjoyment in the domestic circle. He lives upon an attractive but unpretentious estate in lirookline, Massaciiusetts, where a generous hospitality is dispensed.

He married December lo, 1868, Miss Louise Marston, of Bridgewater, New Hampshire, who died on Febru- ary 17, 1880. Their children were: Mabelle, born Fel)ruary 21, 1870; Louise, born October 22, 1871 ; died, December 22, 1S76.

His present wife is Flora E., daugh- ter of Dr. Reuben Greene, of Boston. They have one child, Ethel Armstrong, born June 7, 18S4. Mrs. Armstrong is well adapted to adorn his home and brighten his life.

��COOS IN THE LEGISLATURE.

��James W. Baldwin, representative from Clarksville and Pittsburg, is a Democrat. He was born in Barneston, Province of Quebec, June 2, 1846, and came in childhood, 1854, to Pittsburg, where he has since lived. He is a farmer, and with his brother, George W. Baldwin, owns a farm of fifteen hundred acres in the valley of the Con- necticut and Lidian Stream. He har- vests one hundred and fifty tons of hay and one thousand bushels of grain. He has served two terms as selectman and several years as supervisor. He attends the Methodist Church, has a nice house pleasantly situated on the river-road, is of steady habits, good looking, unmar- ried, and in the market for an offer.

Sidney B. Whittemore, Democrat, of Colebrook, his native town, born July 21, 1839, married May i, 1861, Eme- line C. Corbett of Stewartstown, has a farm of two hundred and seventy-five acres, devoted chiefly to hay, grain, and potatoes. He has been six terms select- man, treasurer of Coos County two years, moderator, collector of taxes.

��and is serving his second term on the State Board of Agriculture. Until it was disbanded, he was captain of Com- pany I, Third Regiment, N. H. N. G. He attends the Methodist Church, and is a Mason. Children, Albert F., born May 13, 1865 ; Everett S., born Oct. 29, 1874.

Mr. Whittemore is a descendant of (i) Rev, Aaron Whittemore of Pem- broke; (2) Benjamin, of Salisbury ; (3) John, who settled in Coos County in 181 2, at the instigation of Daniel Web- ster, to care for his interests in Dixville ; and of (4) Benjamin and Almira (Chand- ler) Whittemore, his parents. Benjamin Whittemore was a prominent man in town affairs, — for many years a select- man, a member of the Legislature sev- eral terms, and county commissioner.

Clark Stevens, Democrat, represents Stratford. Mr. Stevens was born in Maidstone, Vt., May 23, 1839 ; married Nov. 7, 1867, Mary S. Schoff" of Strat- ford. He has been selectman of Strat- ford for three years. Mr. Stevens moved to New Hampshire in 1847;

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