State Builders: An Illustrated Historical and Biographical Record of the State of New Hampshire at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century was published in 1903 as a combined historical, institutional, and biographical survey of New Hampshire at the opening of the new century. Compiled and written by New Hampshire authors and editors, the volume presents a structured account of the state’s political, educational, industrial, commercial, agricultural, medical, ecclesiastical, and legal development, reflecting both the continuity of earlier traditions and the social and economic changes underway in the period.
In addition to topical chapters prepared by subject specialists, State Builders includes an extensive biographical section documenting the careers of notable men and women of New Hampshire. These sketches provide identifying details, professional histories, and public service records, forming a convenient reference for personal and civic history. The work was conceived as a New Hampshire undertaking and dedicated to those whose contributions shaped the modern state. Its value as a reference tool was recognized at the time of publication and has increased as a record of the state’s institutions and individuals at the turn of the twentieth century.
State Builders
Contents
- An Outline of New Hampshire History, 1
Hon. Albert Stillman Batchellor, A.M. - Education in New Hampshire, 60
James H. Fassett, B.A. - Ecclesiastical, 97
John Alden. - Agriculture OF New Hampshire, 113
Nahum J. Bachelder. - The Bench and Bar of New Hampshire, 134
Hosea W. Parker. - Notes on the Medical Profession of New Hampshire, 151
Irving A. Watson, A.M., M.D. - New Hampshire Savings Banks, 172
James O. Lyford. - Industrial New Hampshire, 182
G. A. Cheney. - Commercial New Hampshire, 193
G. A. Cheney.
Biographies
- Chancey Adams, MD, 290
- Ira H. Adams, MD, 489
- John H. Albin, 284
- Anson Colby Alexander, MD, 467
- Augustus D. Ayling, 247
- Rev. D. C. Babcock, DD, 334
- Nahum J. Bachelder, 201
- Henry M. Baker, 250
- Mrs. Mary F. Berry, 430
- Rt Rev. Denis M. Bradley, 218
- Henry E. Burnham, 208
- Sherman E. Burroughs, 443
- Charles A. Busiel, 392
- Frank P. Carpenter, 225
- Henry DeWolfe Carvelle, MD, 376
- William T. Cass, 386
- Joseph P. Chatel, 425
- Reuben H. Cheney, 256
- Alice M. M. Chesley, MD, 288
- Winston Churchill, 210
- Allen N. Clapp, 346
- E. L. Click , 374
- Thomas Fellows Clifford, 460
- Edward H. Clough, 358
- George M. Clough, 428
- William R. Clough, 356
- Charles S. Collins, 469
- Charles Robert Corning, 275
- Moody Currier, 243
- Mrs. Moody Currier, 245
- Edward L. Custer, 380
- Emil Custer, MD, 378
- Daniel J. Daley, 437
- John J. Donahue, 479
- Frederick W. Doring, 363
- Orlando B. Douglas, MD, 308
- Edwin G. Eastman, 483
- Mary Baker G. Eddy, 227
- J. Homer Edgerley, 446
- Alonzo Elliott, 321
- Alfred Randall Evans, 476
- Channing Folsom, 313
- William Lawrence Foster, 384
- John C. French, 342
- Jacob H. Gallinger, 205
- John Gault, 433
- Elmer D. Goodwin, 389
- Daniel Walton Gould, 454
- Frank W. Grafton, MD, 352
- Eli Edwin Graves, MD, 399
- Joshua Oilman Hall, 382
- Edson Hill, 417
- William Henry Weed Hinds, MD, 337
- Henry French Hollis, 282
- John Hosley, 286
- Jane Elizabeth Hoyt, MD, 296
- John M. Hunt, 263
- Chester B. Jordan, 212
- M. E. Kean, MD, 367
- James E. Klock, 306
- Joseph E. A. Lanouette, MD, 340
- Edward Giles Leach, 462
- Ebenezer Learned, MD, 485
- Horatio K. Libbey, 407
- Wallace D. Lovell, 440
- George A. Marden, 449
- Nathaniel Everett Martin, 401
- John N. McClintock, 473
- John McLane, 311
- Eugene F. McQuesten, MD, 304
- Charles T. Means, 299
- John H. Neal, MD, 413
- Rt Rev. William Woodruff Niles, DD, 261
- William H. Nute, MD, 370
- Colonel Francis W. Parker, 273
- Edward Nathan Pearson, 203
- George H. Perkins, 354
- Colonel William S. Pillsbury, 269
- Charles Francis Piper, 329
- Frederick E. Potter, MD, 464
- Benjamin Franklin Prescott, 259
- Ira Joslin Prouty, MD, 369
- George A. Ramsdell, 216
- John H. Roberts, 482
- Henry Robinson, 403
- Frank West Rollins, 214
- William H. Rollins, 365
- Harry Gene Sargent, 301
- Charles H. Sawyer, 294
- Lydia A. Scott, 409
- Hermon K. Sherburne, DO, 317
- Charles E. Sleeper, 457
- John B. Smith, 220
- Charles E. Staniels, 252
- Augustus H. Stark, 360
- Ferdinand A. Stillings, MD, 331
- Frank S. Streeter, 266
- Roger G. Sullivan, 315
- Cyrus A. Sulloway, 395
- Samuel B. Tarrante, 491
- Louis Ashton Thorp, 397
- Charles E. Tilton, 348
- F. S. Towle, MD, 372
- William Jewett Tucker, 350
- Hiram A. Tuttle, 223
- Captain David Wadsworth, 415
- Charles Rumford Walker, 338
- Horace P. Watts, 277
- Mary Alice Watts, 280
- Rev. Lorin Webster, 344
- Nathaniel White, 421
- George Franklyn Willey, 494
- John Willey, 487
- General Charles Williams, 248
- Durham College, 323
- George H. Perkins' Memorial, 353
Illustrations
Source
Willey, George Franklyn, State Builders : an illustrated historical and biographical record of the state of New Hampshire at the beginning of the twentieth century, Manchester, N.H. : The New Hampshire Publishing, 1903.