Carroll County New Hampshire

Delegates to the 1918 New Hampshire Constitutional Convention

THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
CARROLL COUNTY 

ALBANY.- Frank O. Hammond, Republican (post-office address, Conway); born in Albany, August 15, 1868, and educated there; farmer; widower, three children; selectman; Red Man and Odd Fellow. 

BARTLETT.- Eben O. Garland, Democrat; born in Bartlett, September 30, 1848, and educated there; retired merchant; married, two children; Congregationalist; Odd -Fellow and Knight of Pythias; member of the Legislature in 1883 and 1913, serving on the committee on state hospital.

BROOKFIELD.- Guy L. Churchill, Republican (post-office address, Sanbornville, R. F. D. 1); born in Brookfield, June 5, 1885; educated there and at Sanbornville; farmer; Episcopalian; married, one son; member of Knights of Pythias and Grange; -has been road surveyor, auditor, library trustee, police officer, member school board, selectman, town clerk, chairman Public Safety Committee, member House of Representatives of 1915.

CHATHAM.- Hazen Chandler, Democrat; born in Chatham, February 5, 1855, and educated there; farmer; Universalist; married; Odd Fellow, Rebekah and Patron of Husbandry; selectman twelve years, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912, member of the House of Representatives of 1915, serving on the committee on retrenchment and reform.

Arthur R. Shirley, Republican (post-office address, Fryeburg, Me.); born in Fryeburg, February 25, 1864, and educated there and at Conway; farmer, cattle dealer and lumberman; married, five children; Congregationalist; Patron of Husbandry and Red Man; has been selectman and supervisor; delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912, member of the House of Representatives of 1913, member of the State Senate of 1915.

EATON.- Walter D. Stuart, Democrat (post-office address, Snowville); born in Eaton, January 30, 1876; educated in the schools of Eaton and Freedom; farmer; Freewill Baptist; married, four children; Patron of Husbandry; master of subordinate Grange; has held various town offices.

EFFINGHAM.- Richard Dearborn, Republican; born in Effingham, November 6, 1880; educated at Parsonsfield (Me.) Seminary; farmer and lumberman; Congregationalist; married; Mason, Patron of Husbandry, Red Man; member of school board, forest fire warden, town auditor, supervisor, school district treasurer.

FREEDOM.- William A. Bennett, Democrat; born in Freedom, January 14, 1858; attended town schools; farmer and undertaker; for thirty years deacon of Christian church; married, one son; Mason and Eastern Star; has held nearly all town offices.

HART'S LOCATION.- Charles H. Morey, Republican (post-office address, Bemis) ; born at Bemis, March 2, 1884; educated at Portland, Me.; farmer and lumberman; has held all town offices; delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912; married, two children.

JACKSON.- Walter I. Wentworth, Republican; born in Jackson, August 20, 1880, and educated in the schools of that town;, married, one daughter; manager of the Wentworth Hall Garage.

MADISON.- Walter Kenneth, Republican (post-office address, Silver Lake); native of Freedom; educated in Madison schools; hotel proprietor and meat dealer; Free Baptist; married, one child; Odd Fellow; member of the board of health.

MOULTONBORO.- James E. French, Republican; born in Tuftonboro,- February 27, 1845; educated in town -schools and Tilton Seminary; retired from business; married; Methodist; Mason, Knight Templar, Patron of Husbandry;. moderator and town treasurer forty years, member of the, House of Representatives at fourteen sessions and once in the State Senate, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912, has been collector of internal revenue, state railroad commissioner, postmaster, etc.

OSSIPEE,- Arthur E. Chanson, Democrat; born in Bartlett, March 9, 1880; educated in North Conway schools, at Bruiser. Free Academy and Boston University Law School; lawyer' married, three children; Mason; member of the Conway school board three years, clerk of the superior court for Carpool County since 1911.

SANDWICH.-Charles Burleigh Hoyt, Republican (post-office address, Center Sandwich) ; born in Sandwich, December 12, 1860; educated in town schools and at New Hampton Literary Institution; farmer; married; Methodist; Mason, Patron of Husbandry; colonel on the staff of Gov. N. J. Bachelder; member of the House of Representatives in 1901, 1903 and 1915, moderator and selectman now and for several years past.

TAMWORTH.- Martin L. Schenck, Republican; born near Flemington, N. J., the great-grandson of Maj. John Schenck of the New Jersey line in the Revolutionary army; educated in public and private schools at Trenton, N. J.; farmer; married; Episcopalian; 32d degree Mason, member of the G. A. R., Sons of the American Revolution, served two and a half years in the Civil War in Stoneman's cavalry division of the Army of the Potomac and Grierson's cavalry division of the Army of the Tennessee; served under the immediate command of Generals Meade, Grant and Sherman; saw Abraham Lincoln in the White House and has shaken hands with every President of the United States from Grant to Wilson; town supervisor, member of the Legislature of 1915.

TUFTONBORO.- John A. Edgerly, Republican (post-office address, Mirror Lake); born in Tuftonboro, September 11, 1856; educated at Tuftonboro and Wolfeboro Academy; farmer; member of Christian church; widower, one son; Patron of Husbandry; has been selectman, town treasurer, member of the House of Representatives and State Senate.

WAKEFIELD.- Arthur Lowell Foote, Republican (post-office address, Sanbornville); born in Lewiston, Me., December 25, 1863; educated in-the schools of Somersworth; attorney-at-law; Protestant; widower, one son; Mason, Red Man; has been solicitor of Carroll County, member of school board, library trustee.

WOLFEBORO. - Joseph Thayer Meader, Independent Democrat; born in Wolfeboro, February 5, 1849; educated at Wolfeboro Academy; dealer in hides and leather in Boston for forty years; married, two sons; Mason; member of Boston City Club and of the Kingswood Club, Wolfeboro.

William Hathaway Pound, Republican; born in Canandaigua, New York, February 2, 1859; educated at Canandaigua Academy, Oberlin College and Seminary; Congregationalist clergyman; married, two children.
  

These brief biographical sketches of the Rockingham County delegates to the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention of 1918 are found in The Brown Book of the Constitutional Convention of 1918, The Rumford Press, Concord, N. H., Compiled by Harlan C. Pearson, A. Chester Clark, Publisher, 1918.