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��Hampstead), Squire Kimball's sister, and was long occupied by the publish- ing firm of Robie, Kimball, & Merrill. Power was furnished in the basement by a horse turning a windlass.

The old Washington Tavern still stands, now a tenement-house, and as populous as when thirty stages left or came to town every day. It was a fa- vorite resort of teamsters.

The three-story garrison-house, where troops were quartered in the 1812 war, was built by Philip Carrigain and his brother Obadiah. The former was an active, dashing young man, who desired to marry the daughter of President Wheelock of Dartmouth College. She refused his offer, and for her sake he lived and died a bachelor. Later the house was occupied by Jonathan E. Lang and Robert E. Pecker.

Ex-Mayor John Abbott lives where once was the home of Dr. Peter Ren- ton, a bold, dashing, and skilful physi- cian and surgeon. He was a sharp, shrewd Scotchman, and became a cele- brated practitioner. He finally settled and died in Boston. Dr. William Prescott, the genealogist and antiquari- an, lived there several years.

Frank A. Streeter occupies the house built by Judge Asa Fowler.

The Herbert house has been in the Herbert family through several emi- nently respectable generations. It was a store in the last century.

In this neighborhood lived Gov. David L. Morril and Dr. Samuel Morril, the first judge of probate for Merrimack County. The second male child in town was born in his house.

The Historical Society building was erected in 1806. At that date a charter was obtained for the Concord Bank ; but even then there was jealousy between the north end and the south end, and a

��division occurred between the directors as to the location of the bank building. One party was led by Judge Walker, the other by William A. Kent ; and for twenty years two banks were run under the one charter, involving law-suits and much animosity. The Walker party built the Historical Society building ; the Kent party, the original First Na- tional Bank building. The one was the Upper, the other was the Lower Con- cord Bank. When the charter expired in twenty years, the Upper bank was re-organized as the Merrimack County Bank.

The late editor and publisher, Asa McFarland, lived in the house formerly occupied by his father, Rev. Dr. Asa McFarland, and adjoining the house occupied by Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Bouton, the historian of the town, and later of the State, who compiled the ten volumes of the Provincial and State papers.

The house long occupied by Hon. George G. Fogg, editor of " The Inde- pendent Democrat," and later of "The Republican Statesman," United States senator, and during the Rebellion the American minister to Switzerland, was built by Oliver Sanborn, of the Portland firm of Sanborn, Carter, & Co.

Rev. Dr. W. W. Niles, Episcopal bishop of the diocese of New Hamp- shire, occupies the house built by Ivory Hall, the clock-maker.

Woodbridge Odlin's house lot has been in the family since 1782.

The late Gov. Onslow Stearns lived in the house formerly occupied by Judge Upham, John Esterbrook, and Dr. Moses T. Willard.

The Stickney house, built to replace a still older residence by Joseph P. Stickney, occupies the site of one of the old garrison-houses, and for many years has belonged to the family.

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