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 Concord, New Hampshire.

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��teacher of youth for many years, pur- sues his calHng. Here also is the home of the antiquarian enthusiast, J. E. Pecker, — " F. F." of " The Boston

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Journal ; " of the poetess, Laura Garland Carr; and of Mrs. Jane A. Fames, whose foreign correspondence has been of so much interest. Here, until re- cently, for several years lived Mrs. Helen M. Bean, author of " The Widow Wise," and numerous poems. Here is the residence of ex-Chief Justice J. E. Sargent, and the voting-place of that acute political writer, William E. Chan- dler, lately Secretary of the Navy.

At the north end of Main Street is still standing the house of the first min- ister. Rev. Timothy Walker, built in 1733-34; and before its door is the old horse-block on which many genera- tions of Concord beauties have alighted. Great elms overshadow the venerable residence, and within are relics and mementos of the old time. Around it was built in the days of Indian alarms a high stockade, within which were shel- tered several neighboring families. It descended from the minister to his son Judge Timothy Walker, to his grandson Capt. Joseph Walker, and to his great- grandson, the present owner, Joseph

��Burbeen Walker, who with his wife, Elizabeth (Upham) Walker, maintains the dignity of the family. Among the most highly valued treasures of the old mansion are the portraits formerly the property of the Countess Rumford. Opposite the Walker house, and a little north of it, is the house in which the Legislature of New Hampshire held its first session in Concord. It was found impossible to warm the meeting-house sufficiently. The Whittemore house stands on the site of the former resi- dence of Rev. Sylvester Dana, Judge Dana's father, which was burned, involv- ing the loss of the sermons of a lifetime, and a quantity of gold coin.

The fine modern residence of Sam- uel S. Kimball occupies the site where stood the home of his father. Esquire Samuel A. Kimball, and of his grand- father, Deacon John Kimball. Next north was the home of the late Judge

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Jonathan Kittredge, now occupied by Frank W. Rollins.

The brick store was built by Mrs. Anna True (wioo.. of Rev. Henry True, thirty years pastor of the church at

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