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��Tilton, New Hampshire.

��Ida G. Scribner of Ashland ; two chil- filren.

Lucien F. Ratchelder, law -student with Mr. Fellows, was born in Lou- don, Oct. 2, 1859 ; fitted for college at Ciilmanton academy; began the study of the law with James O. Lyford, Es(i., at Tilton, and will try to be admitted in March, 1886.

Dr. J. P. Osborn has a very large practice.

Dr. Charles Reade Gould was born in Antrim, Dec. 28, 1841 ; educated at New-Hampshire Conference Seminary ; studied with Dr. Byley Lyford of Til- ton, and with Dr. Abel C, Burnham of Hillsborough ; graduated at Dart- mouth Medical College, 1865 ; set- tled five years at Hillsborough Bridge ; came to Tilton in 1870 ; lives on Northfield side ; Knight Templar Mount Horeb Commandery. Attends, and is a member of, Methodist- Episco- pal church. Both at Hillsborough and in Northfield he has been superintendent of school committee. Married, Dec. 25, 1865, Mary S. Dunbar, daughter of Edward J. Dunbar of Hillsborough ; one son and two daughters living.

Albert A. Moulton, M.D., was born in Meredith, Oct. 6, 1828; studied medicine with Drs. Eaton and Sawyer of Bristol, and graduated at Dartmouth Medical School in 1 849 ; settled in Meredith, 1850; in Concord, in 1856; was surgeon of the Third New-Hamp- shire Volunteers ; served over a year ; returned to Concord ; settled in Tilton in 1874. His son is settled in Utah.

John J. Dearborn, M.D., settled in Tilton, in December, 1884. Dr. Dear- born was born in Concord, Dec. 19, 1850 (son of John M. and Ruth E. (Hoyt) Dearborn) ; studied medicine with Drs. Gage and Conn ; attended lectures at Dartmouth College and Ver-

��mont University, where he took his degree in 1873. Settled first in Hop- kinton, remaining nearly four years ; thence to Salisbury, where he continued until he came to Tilton. The doctor is deeply interested in historical sub- jects, being the author of " The History of Salisbury," now in press. He mar- ried, Nov. 20, 1 88 1, Etta J. Bean, a native of Sandwich.

Rev. C. C. Sampson, pastor of the Congregational church, was born in Harrison, Me., Sept. 2, 1850 ; was edu- cated at Bridgeton Academy, Bowdoin College, class of 1873, ^^^ Andover Seminary, 1878. Was one year at Gil- manton Ironworks, supplying the pul- pit. Began his labor in the ministry at Pembroke in October, 1879, ^'"^^ ^^^^ ordained as pastor May 18, 1881. He left Pembroke the last of March, 1885, and was called to Tilton ; commenced preaching the second Sunday in May ; was installed June 30. The church has a membership of two hundred.

The brothers A. J. and J. J. Pills- bury have lately purchased the property of the New-Hampshire Manufacturing Company, and have started an exten- sive shoe-manufactory.

Perhaps to no one man is the pros- perity of Tilton due. But to Charles E. Tilton, for whose family the town is named, the town owes very much. His biography is to appear in a future num- ber of The Granite Monthly.

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'Adam S. Ballantyne of the Granite Mills Company, one of a family of thirteen, was born in Scotland (Selkirk, within three miles of Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott), Sept. 29, 1833; migrated to this country in 1856, and settled in Northfield in January, 1865; and married the same year M ittie Tilton, daughter of Jeremiah Tilton , a sister of Mrs. Jonathan E. Lang of Concord. Their union has been blessed with six children, of whom four are boys. Mr. Ballantyne has resided since 1881 in Til- ton. He has been moderator many times, town clerk one year, and represented Northfield in 1881. He has

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