New Hampshire Notables is a biographical reference work compiled and published by the Concord Press in 1932. It serves as a continuation of the earlier volume issued in 1919 by Henry H. Metcalf, who hoped that his work would be carried forward by others. The present edition fulfills that expectation by assembling 474 brief sketches of men and women identified with New Hampshire through birth or residence, and recognized for contributions in public life, business, education, the professions, and civic or benevolent organizations.
The editors followed Metcalf’s original plan with only minor adjustments. The scope was limited to living subjects (alive in 1932), with few exceptions, and death notices and corrections were later recorded in an addenda section. The work was produced entirely in New Hampshire and reflects an effort to create a practical tool for libraries, newspaper offices, and researchers. Entries were set in the order they were received rather than alphabetically, a method adopted to avoid delay in publication. An alphabetical index provides access to individual sketches. The volume does not claim to be comprehensive, nor to represent a definitive list of the state’s notable figures, but it preserves biographical data on many individuals who achieved distinction within New Hampshire and beyond.
New Hampshire Notables
Contents
Abbot, Stanley Harris, 84
Abbott, Frank J., 69
Abbott, Sewall Webster, 30
Adams, Edward Haven, 165
Africa, Walter M., 46
Allen, John Eliot, 40
Amey, Harry B., 165
Amsden, Henry H., 121
Anderson, Isabel, 11
Aspinwall, Ada Mae, 158
Atwood, Charles Edward, 163
Babb, John Franklin, 83
Bachelder, Nahum Josiah, 29
Baer, Annie Wentworth, 42
Baer, Lorenzo E., 42
Baker, Benjamin Ward, 115
Bancroft, Susan Cushing Wood, 130
Barnard, Charles Daniel, 125
Bartlett, John Henry, 15
Bartlett, Russell Tewksbury, 33
Bass, Robert Perkins, 16
Bassett, Whitman Sears, 35
Batchelder, Bennett, 156
Beede, Frank Herbert, 207
Bell, Ernest L., Jr., 191
Bell, William T., 73
Bennett, H. W. N., 176
Bingham, George Hutchins, 74
Bixler, James Wilson, 151
Blake, Charles Rogers, 129
Blanchard, Grace, 29
Blandin, Amos Noyes, 132
Blandin, Amos, Jr., 160
Blood, Robert O., 15
Booth, Robert P., 79
Bosley, Frederick Andrew, 196
Boutwell, Arthur J., 127
Bowles, George Hall, 29
Brackett, Charles H., 100
Branch, Oliver Winslow, 23
Bridges, Henry Styles, 103
Britton, William John, 20
Brown, Albert Oscar, 181
Brown, Charles Warren, 131
Brown, David R., 91
Brown, Fred Herbert, 136
Brown, Robert W., 53
Bugbee, Marion Louise, 38
Bugbee, Perley R., 147
Burleigh, George William, 183
Burns, Stanley Mark, 139
Burpee, William B., 48
Burroughs, Robert Phillips, 176
Butterfield, Clarence E., 77
Buxton, Willis George, 89
Cady, Elisha H., 47
Cain, Orville E., 13
Carleton, John Porter, 123
Caron, Damase, 154
Carpenter, Frank Pierce, 87
Carroll, Charles E., 146
Carroll, Michael J., 167
Carter, Eliot Avery, 94
Carter, George C., 177
Carter, Winthrop Lakey, 177
Chandler, Charles A., 203
Chapman, Charles E., 161
Chase, Bernard B., 206
Chase, Levin Joynes, 48
Cheney, Harry Morrison, 37
Cheney, Thomas P., 63
Chesley, Thomas Jewett, 104
Chretien, Alfred J., 45
Clarner, Louis George Karl Jr., 63
Clifford, Thomas Fellows, 13
Colbath, George A., 155
Colby, Willoughby A., 49
Cole, Oscar Phipps, 204
Colony, John Joslin, 56
Connor, Fred T., 52
Converse, Ernest Luther, 20
Cook, Charles Fred, 120
Cooper, Burt R., 62
Cooper, Mabel Alice Thompson, 126
Copeland, Clarence S., 56
Cotton, Norris, 201
Couch, Benjamin W., 64
Coulombe, Ovide J., 64
Cox, Charles Edson, 78
Cox, Guy W., 195
Cox, Louis Sherburne, 155
Craft, Cecil C., 72
Cramer, Thomas Edmund, 145
Cummings, Clarence, 13
Cummings, George D., 192
Cummings, John J., 209
Dallas, John Thomson, 17
Davis, Ralph W., 134
Davis, Stilman George, 120
Davis, William S., 202
Dearborn, George Van Ness, 198
Dearborn, Samuel J., 103
DeMar, Clarence H., 199
DeMerritt, Jennie Mabelle, 21
DeMerritt, John, 21
Demond, Fred Clarence, 39
Dickinson, Milan A., 47
Doe, Jessie, 31
Dolloff, Albert Simeon, 19
Dolloff, Amy Josephine, 20
Dolloff, Charles Hall, 80
Donovan, Joseph C., 142
Doon, James W., 46
Doyle, Jeremiah Joseph, 136
Doyle, Paul Jeremiah, 199
Drake, James Frank, 191
Drake, Nathaniel Seavey, 208
Drayton, Clarence Irving, 161
Drury, Samuel Smith, 77
Dudley, Albertus True, 151
Eastman, M. Gale, 49
Eaton, Harry M., 209
Edgerton, Halsey Charles, 88
Emerson, Charles Sumner, 75
Emerson, Frank Henry, 90
Emery, Dana A., 132
English, James Fairfield, 90
Epply, Joseph W., 95
Everett, Frederick Elwin, 52
Farmer, James C., 37
Farrand, George Edward, 51
Felker, Andrew Llewellyn, 95
Felker, Samuel Demeritt, 34
Fellows, Clara Doublas Merriman, . 75
Ferguson, E. Maude, 108
Fernald, Fred 146
Fernald, Josiah Eastman, 61
Fernald, Thomas E., 175
Field, John H., 77
Fischer, Herbert Brainard 145
Fletcher, George Moore, 143
Fletcher, Robert, 195
Flint, Walter Moses, 197
Flint, William Willard, 69
Flint, William Willard, Jr — 74
Flynn, J. Edward 114
Fogg, Robert S., 133
Foster, George A, . 52
Foster, George Sanford, 113
Foster, John H, 53
Foster, William A, 61
French, Charles A, 41
French, George Moulton, 134
Frisselle, Carrie Corliss, 179
Frost, Fredric Worthen, 57
Fuller, Enoch D, 59
Gagnon, Jules Octave, 77
Gallagher, Edward J, 160
George, James M., 162
Gerlach, James H., 151
Gerrish, Frank Lawrence, 155
Gile, John Fowler, 25
Gladysz, Joseph J, 88
Goetschius, Percy, 73
Goodrich, Nathaniel Lewis, 23
Goss, W. Earle, 53
Goss, Winifred Lane, 188
Gosselin, Lucien H., 197
Gould, Robert Truman, 85
Gourley, I. Reed, 121
Goyette, A. Erland, 93
Greeley, Harry Parker, 131
Greene, Merton Henry, 130
Greer, Benjamin F, 165
Griffin, John F., 132
Griffin, Rodney A., 123
Guertin, Antoine Albert, 101
Hale, Fletcher, 209
Hall, Dwight, 156
Hall, Errol S., 38
Hamblett, Charles Judson 25
Hamblett, Robert B., 27
Hamlin, Howard Hutchins, 67
Hammond, Otis Grant, 72
Hanafcrd, Mary E. Neal, 83
Hanna, John V, 44
Hardy, Edwin Noah, 125
Harriman, Alice Stratton, 110
Harriman, N. Joy, 64
Hart, Harold Hawkins, 33
Haskell, Hiram B, 149
Healy, Arthur S, 67
Henderson, Oren Vitellius, 32
Hendrick, Nellie Towne, 150
Hering, Hermann Siegfried 157
Hill, Frank Pierce, 97
Hill, Thomas C, 44
Hirst, Edgar C., 43
Hobbs, Frank P., 145
Hodgman, Burns P., 210
Hoffman, Maurice, Jr., 116
Holden, Charles Arthur, 36
Hollis, Abijah, 207
Hollis, Allen, 207
Holmes, Harry L., 67
Holmgren, Samuel T., 137
Hopkins, Ernest Martin, 107
Hopkins, Harry D., 151
Houlne, F. J., 71
Howard, Charles Danforth, 174
Hoyt, Charles B., 155
Hughes, George T., 179
Hunt, Samuel P., 119
Hurley, John S., 204
Ingalls, Raymond George, 114
Jackman, Charles L., 101
Jackson, C. Floyd, 39
Jackson, Robert, 189
James, Fred, 28
James, Orrin M., 167
James, Warren W., 42
Jameson, James Walker, 32
Jarvis, Andrew, 81
Jenney, Chester Ezekiel, 142
Jewett, Stephen Shannon, 40
Johnson, Martha Evelina, 143
Johnson, Owen, 117
Johnston, Francis Wayland, 141
Jones, Arthur R., 154
Jones, Ezra A., 173
Jones, Robert Edmond, 77
Jones, William Safford, 28
Jordan, Chester Bradley, 113
Keefe, F. Clyde, 114
Keeler, Irad Eugene, 105
Keenan, Martin J., 94
Kellogg, Albert Blanchard, 38
Kent, Hervey, 30
Kerr, Robert Brown, 126
Keyes, Frances Parkinson, 13
Keyes, Henry Wilder, 13
Kidder, George Albert, 89
Kilkenny, Hiram George, 184
Kinsman, Arthur C., 55
Knowlton, Donald, 48
Ladd, Fred Newton, 116
Lang, Fred W., 105
Langdell, Samuel Frank, 56
Laycock, Craven, 84
Leach, Eugene W., 43
Lemelin, Emile, 159
Lewis, Edward Morgan, 205
Libbey, Fred S., 132
Little, Adin S., 207
Livingston, Frank Channing, 115
Locke, Charles F., 210
Lorimer, Howard Thornton, 113
Lowe, Arthur H., 79
Lucier, Alvin A., 66
MacLeod, James C., 25
MacMillan, Andrew Louis, Jr., 110
Mann, William Haselton Gage, 17
Marble, Thomas Littlefield, 69
Marston, John G., 184
Mason, Herbert Delavan, 198
Mason, Wallace Edward, 153
Matthews, Joseph Swett, 179
McCurdy, Robert M., 65
McDuffee, Louis H., 80
McDuffee, Willis, 146
McGee, Edward R. B., 169
McGreal, Thomas Joseph, 103
Mclnnis, William B., 43
McIntyre, Daniel, 93
McLane, John Roy, 16
McLaughlin, George Asbury, 203
Meader, Harry H., 199
Meader, James Laurence, 85
Meader, John Levi, 28
Mercer, Ottis E., 28
Merrill, Harry, 100
Merrill, Robert J., 70
Miller, Edward Franklin, 99
Mitchell, John Louis, 33
Moreau, Arthur E., 162
Morrill, Arthur Putnam, 137
Morrill, Sibley Gage, 154
Morris, George Franklin, 81
Morris, Lula J. Aldrich, 80
Morrison, Amos Bartlett, 115
Morrison, John, 104
Morrison, William Y., 109
Morse, Mayland Herbert, 121
Moses, George Higgins, 11
Muehling, John A., 78
Munsey, George P., 96
Murchie, Alexander, 193
Murchie, Robert Charles, 174
Murphy, Patrick W., 104
Musgrove, Frank Abbott, 197
Musgrove, Mary Donker, 171
Newman, Henry Parker, 11
Niles, William Porter, 91
Noone, Albert Wellington, 83
Normandin, Fortunat E., 117
Noyes, Harry W., 160
Nute, Harold W., 210
O'Dowd, Richard M., 108
O'Dowd, John Thomas, 175
Olson, Arthur, 55
Ordway, John L., 55
Osgood, Abraham Lincoln, 99
O'Shea, Arthur D., 116
Otis, Edward Osgood, 70
Otis, Joseph Simeon, 61
Page, Elwin Lawrence, 166
Page, Bertha Robertson, 166
Parker, Howard, 201
Parker, Nellie Day, 201
Parshley, Edward John, 51
Parsons, Frank Nesmith, 99
Patrick, Mary Mills, 162
Pearmain, Alice Whittemore Upton, 165
Pearson, Harlan C., 105
Peaslee, Robert James, 161
Peavey, Leroy Deering, 128
Perkins, Charles H., 47
Perkins, John H., 133
Perry, Lewis, 42
Pherson, Frank James, 117
Philbrook, Earle W., 11.0
Piper, Jonathan, 66
Pitman, Charles J., 20
Plaisted, Harold C., 120
Powers, James Joseph, 136
Price, William E., 181
Prime, Herbert Orman, 65
Pringle, James Nelson, 206
Putnam, George Martin, 17
Quint, Edgar M., 192
Rainie, Herbert Williamson, 49
Rand, John Langdon, 150
Rand, Willard D., 153
Randolph, William J., 31
Remick, James Waldron, 187
Remick, Mary Pendleton, 187
Rexford, Clarence E., 39
Roberts, Ernest Porter, 110
Roby, Arthur Elbridge, 107
Rogers, Harry Knox, 23
Rogers, William N., 188
Rowe, Stewart Everett, 163
Russell, Fay Franklin, 156
Sanborn, Alden F., 15
Sanborn, Elizabeth H., 141
Sanborn, Eugene Dana, 75
Sanborn, Harry Clinton, 51
Sanders, Loren Addison, 109
Sargeant, Frank Wadleigh, 22
Sargent, Eaton D., 203
Savage, Hiram Newton 196
Sawyer, Charles M. T, 185
Sawyer, Enos K., 120
Sawyer, Frederick W., 136
Sawyer, Harry Dean, 147
Sawyer, Roland Douglas, 97
Sawyer, William H., 100
Scammon, George R., 127
Scammon, John, 157
Schiller, Rudolph, 97
Schofield, Mary Lyon Cheney, 27
Seaver, James Nelson, 205
Shackford, Martha Hale, 150
Sheehan, John J., 111
Shenard, Annie Bartlett, 208
Sherburne, Eugene Tisdale, 199
Shute, Henry Augustus, 209
Silver, Ernest Leroy, 27
Simoneau, Alfred W., 91
Simonds, Katherine Call, 189
Simons, Minot, 59
Simpson, Frank Leslie, 159
Sleener, William E., 55
Small, Frederic E., 108
Smalley, Fred Charles, 44
Smith, Charlotte Stewartson, 171
Smith, Deeripg Greeley, 115
Smith, Frederick, 34
Smith, Harold Morrison 192
Smith, Harold M., 189
Smith, Harry W., 101
Smith, Joseph Brodie, 169
Smith, Joseph F., 35
Smith, Raymond Underwood, 50
Smith, Robinson W., 35
Smythe, Arthur L., 58
Snow, Bruce, 9
Snow, Conrad Edwin, 173
Snow, Leslie Perkins, 139
Snow, Norma Cutter Currier, 141
Spaulding, Flora A., 87
Spaulding, Huntley Nowell, 19
Spaulding, Rolland Harty, 25
Spence, Samuel A. T., 133
Stearns, George Landon, 84
Stevens, George Edward, 90
Stevens, Henry Webster, 41
Stevens, Jane Elizabeth Hoyt, 193
Stevens, William Lyman, 45
Storrs, John Williams, 58
Strandt, Leandre, 166
Straw, Zatae L., 129
Sullivan, Dennis E., 11
Sullivan, John E., 105
Sullivan, John Lawrence, 159
Sullivan, William F., 202
Sulloway, Frank Jones, 102
Swart, William Dumond, 22
Taylor, Frederick Wellington, 131
Tenney, George Amos, 9
Thayer, Fred I., 61
Thorp, Floyd, 130
Thorp, Louis Ashton, 122
Tilton, Elmer S., 162
Tilton, Frank Pierce, 142
Tobey, Charles William, 187
Toland, Edward D., 102
Towle, Murray Hanson, 135
Tracy, Charles Alden, 134
Trickey, Ernest H., 44
Tripp, Walter Henry, 135
Tufts, James Arthur, 185
Upham, James Duncan, 71
Upton, Robert W., 183
Vancore, Dixon F., 158
Varick, Thomas Rice, 62
Veazey, William D., 63
Wadleigh, Fred Tilton, 79
Wadleigh, Winthrop, 65
Waldron, Jeremy Richard, 181
Wallace, Ellen Alfreda, 202
Wason, Edward Hills, 30
Watkins, Thomas Webb, 31
Watson, William H., 203
Webster, Harold Adams, 135
Webster, Jerome P., Ill
Weeks, Fred R., 57
Welch, Daniel M, 185
Wentworth, Bert, 50
Wheeler, Stephen Morse, 123
Whitcher, Frank Weston, 149
Whitcomb, William F., 70
Whittemore, Arthur Gilman 209
Whittemore, Harry Chase 171
Whittemore, Laurence Frederick, 87
Whittier, Homer M., 72
Wilkins, George Clarence, 122
Wilkinson, Lewis H., 46
Willis, Edward S., 120
Wilson, Allen Melbourne, 206
Wilson, Henry Wesley, 153
Winant, John Gilbert, 9
Winchell, F. Mabel, 91
Wood, Mary I., 204
Woodbury, Charlotte E., 107
Woodbury, Peter, 36
Woodman, Frederic Thomas, 119
Woodworth, Edward Knowlton, 128
Worthen, Anne Skinner, 96
Worthen, John H., 96
Wright, John Patterson, 57
Wyman, Louis Eliot, 95
Young, Oscar L., 74
Young, William A., 102
Source
Concord Press, New Hampshire notables; brief biographical sketches of New Hampshire men and women, native or resident, prominent in public, professional, business, educational, fraternal or benevolent work, Concord, N.H. : Concord Press, 1932.