No single volume can catalogue all of New Hampshire’s distinguished citizens, nor summarize their varied achievements. Each generation enlarges the roll of notable figures, and the story of their contributions has no natural conclusion. This volume does not pretend to be comprehensive; it represents a selective effort within a very broad field of inquiry.
For genealogical research, such biographical sketches as these can be valuable. They often provide detailed accounts of an ancestor’s education, occupation, civic involvement, and family connections. Researchers should remember that the information was ordinarily supplied by the subject or a close relative and shaped by an editor into a polished narrative, so it reflects personal perspective as well as fact.
New Hampshire Men
New Hampshire Men presents 407 biographical sketches, with portraits, of men who were active in commercial, professional, and political life in New Hampshire in 1893.
List of Sketches and Photographs
Abbot, Francis L., 193
Abbot, Joseph H., 192
Abbot, J. Stephens, 191
Abbott, George W., 196
Abbott, Joshua P., 276
Abbott, Warren, 278
Adams, George H., 11
Albin, John H., 243
Aldrich, Edgar, 211
Alexander, Anson C., 312
Alexander, William H., 392
Amey, John T., 180
Amsden, Charles H., 33
Ayling, Augustus D., 7
Bachelder, Nahum J., 26
Baker, Alpheus W., 23
Baker, Henry M., 68
Ballock, George W., 354
Barker, Fred A., 106
Barnard, James E., 241
Barron, Oscar G., 305
Bartlett, Charles H., 121
Bartlett, George A., 344
Bartlett, John P., 224
Batchelder, Richard N., 91
Batchellor, Albert S., 27
Bean, George F., 349
Bean, William G., 391
Beattie, Alexander M., 156
Bell, John J., 38
Berry, Nathaniel S., 80
Bingham, George A., 215
Bingham, Harry, 214
Blair, Henry W., 67
Blaisdell, Henri G., 205
Blake, Ira N., 273
Blandin, Amos N., 158
Blodgett, Rufus, 340
Blunt, Edward O., 4
Boss, Irvin L., 395
Bourlet, John W., 369
Bowers, Shepard L., 48
Branch, Oliver E., 218
Brennan, James F., 245
Briggs, James F., 74
Brown, Frank E., 384
Brown, Frank H., 237
Brown, Frank P., 304
Brown, George H., 345
Brown, George L., 206
Brown, Horace A., 368
Brown, Manson S., 128
Brown, Warren, 110
Bryant, Napoleon B., 145
Bunton, Andrew, 338
Burbank, William W., 279
Burleigh, Alvin, 149
Burnham, Henry E., 225
Burns, Charles H., 216
Burton, George D., 342
Busiel, Charles A., 381
Buxton, Willis G., 367
Callaghan, William J., 396
Carroll, Edward H., 160
Carpenter, Philip, 231
Carter, Hosea B., 408
Carter, Solon A., 18
Carter, William S., 136
Chamberlin, Horace E., 374
Chamberlin, Robert N., 152
Chandler, Henry, 329
Chandler, Lloyd H., 198
Chandler, William D., 199
Chandler, William E., 65
Chase, Franklin N., 188
Chase, Horace G., 335
Chase, Ira A., 247
Cheney, Benjamin P., 337
Cheney, Elias H., 103
Cheney, Fred N., 264
Cheney, Person C., 84
Cheney, Reuben H., 265
Cheney, Thomas P., 99
Chesley, Charles, 252
Christie, James I., 401
Churchill, Frank C., 116
Cilley, Harry B., 318
Clapp, Henry W., 185
Clark, Nathaniel H., 114
Clark, Noah S., 407
Clarke, Frank G., 151
Cochrane, William H. D., 258
Coffin, Edward D., 181
Cogswell, Parsons B., 186
Colby, Enoch C. L., 266
Conn, Granville P., 310
Cook, George, 12
Corning, Benjamin H., 323
Corning, Charles R., 28
Courser, Thomas J., 157
Cragin, Aaron H., 70
Crawford, George T., 290
Crosby, Dixi, 313
Cross, David, 217
Cummings, George A., 140
Cummings, George E., 390
Cummings, Horace S., 230
Currier, Frank D., 97
Currier, Moody, 87
Daley, Daniel J., 251
Damon, Charles H., 45
Danforth, Charles C., 268
Danforth, Sylvester P., 204
Daniell, Warren F., 79
Davis, Edward B., 315
Davis, George G., 127
Davis, Walter S., 130
Demeritt, John, 376
Dewey, George M., 190
Dillon, John J., 267
Dodge, Jacob R., 96
Dodge, Jonathan T., 161
Doe, Charles, 209
Donovan, Daniel B., 404
Dorr, Charles M., 104
Dow, Frederick C., 14
Downing, Lewis, 194
Downing, Lewis, Jr., 195
Drake, Benjamin F., 15
Drew, John W., 203
Dunlap, Charles H., 13
Eastman, Charles F., 326
Eastman, Edwin G., 37
Eastman, John I., 202
Edgerly, James A., 235
Eldredge, H. Fisher, 207
Elliott, Alonzo, 330
Emerson, Henry A., 297
Emery, Matthew G., 334
Evans, Alfred R., 249
Evans, Pearson G., 42
Everett, Edward H., 159
Fairbanks, Alfred G., 57
Farr, George, 321
Felker, Samuel D., 143
Fernald, George A., 353
Fellows, James F., 179
Fellows, John H., 162
Fletcher, Everett, 176
Flynn, James, 294
Foster, William L., 213
French, Francis T., 129
French, James E., 98
Fuller, Levi K., 343
Gafney, Charles B., 377
Gage, Isaac K., 366
Gale, Stephen H., 10
Gallinger, Jacob H., 66
Gannon, John, Jr., 319
Gault, Norris C., 360
Gile, William A., 284
Gilman, Edward H., 131
Gilman, Virgil C., 126
Gilmore, George C., 29
Gilmore, Joseph A., 81
Goodell, David H., 89
Goodnow, Walter L., 55
Gordon, James T., 393
Goss, Herbert I., 250
Gowing, Fred, 19
Graves, E. E., 275
Greene, Chauncey H., 325
Greene, Herman W., 233
Greene, J. Alonzo, 314
Griffin, Simon G., 146
Griffin, Willard H., 31
Hall, Daniel, 182
Hamblett, Charles J., 41
Hamilton, John H., 394
Hammond, George F., 60
Hatch, George A., 47
Hatch, John, 406
Hatch, Oscar C., 328
Haynes, Martin A., 76
Head, Eugene S., 359
Head, Natt, 86
Head, William F., 358
Heard, William A., 22
Higgins, Freeman, 56
Hill, Edson J., 306
Hobbs, Frank K., 46
Hodge, Elliott B., 30
Howard, Joseph W., 59
Hoyt, Charles H., 163
Humphrey, Stillman, 184
Huntington, Newton S., 44
Huse, Henry H., 285
Hutchins, Stilson, 400
Jackson, James B., 255
Jencks, Welcome, 281
Jewell, David L., 357
Jewell, John W., 356
Jewell, Stephen S., 153
Jones, Edwin F., 222
Jones, Frank, 370
Johnson, Clarence, 200
Jordan, Chester B., 147
Kent, Henry Oakes, 332
Keyes, Henry W., 155
Kilburn, Lucian M., 277
Killoren, Andrew, 63
Kimball, Benjamin A., 380
Kimball, John, 120
Knowlton, Edgar J., 187
Ladd, Fletcher, 253
Lang, Paul, 254
Langley, C. A., 295
Laskey, John J., 189
Lauder, James N., 291
Leach, Edward G., 240
Leavitt, George R., 175
Leighton, George A., 208
Linehan, John C., 20
Little, George, 274
Locke, G. Scott, 364
Locke, John H., 171
Lord, Albert C., 298
Lord, Edward O., 403
Lyford, James O., 21
Lyman, John D., 61
Mackinnon, Tristram A., 389
Mann, Edward F., 378
Marble, Henry, 270
Martin, Nathaniel E., 242
Marvin, Thomas E. O., 246
Mathes, George F., 164
McCoy, James N., 302
McGregor, George W., 327
McKellar, George A., 271
McKinney, Luther F., 78
McLane, John, 40
Means, Charles T., 135
Melcher, Woodbury L., 336
Merrill, Howard P., 402
Merrill, Sherburne R., 117
Meserve, Arthur L., 109
Mitchell, John M., 227
Mitchell, William H., 226
Morrill, Frank I., 165
Morrison, Charles E., 382
Morse, H. Frank, 261
Moulton, Herbert B., 6
Moulton, Hosea B., 350
Murkland, Charles S., 399
Nash, Stephen G., 346
Neally, B. Frank, 183
Norris, True L., 2
Noyes, Frank G., 229
Nute, Alonzo, 77
Nute, Alonzo I., 167
Nutter, Eliphalet S., 178
O'Shea, Dennis, 169
Page, Calvin, 64
Page, George F., 34
Page, Samuel B., 228
Page, Samuel T., 248
Paine, Samuel E., 138
Palmer, Fred A., 263
Parker, Charles, 301
Parker, Ira, 322
Parsons, Frank N., 5
Patterson, James W., 71
Patterson, Joab N., 94
Pearson, Edward N., 25
Pearson, John C., 134
Pearson, John H., 379
Peaslee, Walter S., 244
Peavey, George S., 49
Pender, John, 107
Pierce, David R., 234
Pierce, Franklin, 69
Pierce, George W., 316
Pike, Austin F., 73
Pillsbury, Charles A., 354
Pillsbury, Rosecrans W., 262
Pillsbury, William S., 115
Pitman, Lycurgus, 132
Pitman, Walter, 299
Powers, Wilbur H., 256
Pratt, Myron J., 339
Prescott, Benjamin F., 85
Prescott, Daniel C., 385
Preston, George C., 50
Putney, Henry M., 39
Quimby, Frank P., 387
Quinby, Henry B., 118
Randlett, James E., 361
Ray, John C., 3
Ray, Ossian, 75
Remick, James W., 212
Reynolds, Leonard P., 58
Richards, Dexter, 137
Richardson, Loren S., 363
Robinson, Allan H., 405
Robinson, Henry, 102
Roby, Harley B., 197
Rogers, Walter M., 307
Rolfe, Henry P., 105
Rolfe, Robert H., 201
Rollins, Edward H., 72
Rollins, Frank M., 35
Rollins, Frank W., 331
Rowe, George R., 144
Rowell, Clark F., 308
Rowell, Franklin P., 168
Sanborn, Edward B. S., 221
Sanborn, John W., 371
Sanborn, Walter H., 355
Sanders, George A., 309
Sargeant, Cyrus, 166
Sargent, Harry G., 219
Sawyer, Charles H., 88
Sawyer, Wiliam D., 9
Scammon, Richard M., 139
Scott, Charles, 172
Scruton, Walter S., 16
Seavey, James F., 125
Sinclair, Charles A., 373
Slayton, Edward M., 257
Slayton, Hiram K., 124
Smith, Charles C., 324
Smith, Converse J., 100
Smith, Emmons S., 352
Smith, John B., 1
Spaldin, John A., 113
Spaulding, Oliver L., 93
Spring, John L., 236
Staniels, Charles E., 269
Stearns, Ezra S., 17
Stearns, Onslow, 82
Stevens, Charles W., 317
Stevens, Henry W., 222
Stevens, Joseph L., 320
Stevens, Lyman S., 111
Stewart, G. Percival, 260
Stillings, Ferdinand A., 311
Stone, Charles F., 239
Streeter, Frank S., 220
Sullivan, Roger G., 259
Sulloway, Alvah W., 372
Taggart, David A., 122
Tallant, John G., 141
Tasker, John C., 62
Thayer, William F., 333
Theobald, George L., 362
Todd, George E., 375
Towle, J. Warren, 232
Truesdell, Edmund E., 133
Tucker, William J., 398
Turner, Hiram N., 383
Tutherly, William, 154
Tuttle, Hiram A., 90
Tuttle, William O., 280
Upton, Hiram D., 150
Van Dyke, Thomas H., 170
Virgin, Fred P., 296
Wadleigh, Thomas L., 173
Walker, Gustavus, 282
Walker, J. Albert, 341
Walker, John G., 92
Walker, Joseph B., 51
Walker, Thomas J., 36
Walker, William, Jr., 283
Wallace, Robert M., 210
Warde, David A., 119
Warde, George P., 365
Wason, George A., 388
Waterhouse, Sylvester, 292
Waterhouse, William E., 53
Watson, Irving A., 24
Webster, J. Frank, 386
Weed, A. S., 293
Welch, John T., 397
Wellman, Jerry P., 8
Wentworth, Nathaniel, 32
Weston, James A., 83
Wheeler, John W., 112
Whipple, Thomas J., 238
Whitaker, John, 52
Whitcher, Ira, 300
White, Daniel M., 108
Whittemore, Jacob B., 142
Whittemore, Sidney B., 303
Wilkins, Clarence H., 272
Willis, Harlon S., 348
Wood, James A., 101
Woodbury, Levi, 347
Woods, Edward, 43
Woodward, Clement J., 54
Woodworth, Albert B., 174
Woolson, Augustus A., 148
Wright, Carroll D., 95
Young, Aaron, 286
Young, Andrew H., 287
Young, Charles A., 288
Young, Jacob D., 177
Young, William H. H., 289
Source
Moses, George Higgins, New Hampshire men, A collection of biographical sketches, with portraits, of sons and residents of the state who have become known in commercial, professional, and political life, Concord, N.H. : The New Hampshire publishing company, 1893.