Merrimack County New Hampshire

Delegates to the 1918 New Hampshire Constitutional Convention

THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
MERRIMACK COUNTY 

ALLENSTOWN.- Fred S. Eastman, Republican (post-office address, Suncook); born in Hooksett in 1875; educated at Manchester; electrician; married; 32d degree Mason, Knight Templar, Shriner; member of the House of Representatives of 1917, serving on the committees on towns and on incorporations.

ANDOVER.- George W. Stone, Democrat; born in Plymouth, November 11, 1857; educated at Colby Academy, Dartmouth College, class of 1878, and the Law School of Boston University, class of 1882; lawyer; Mason; Unitarian; member of the House of Representatives in 1885 and 1887, when he was the candidate of his party for speaker; delegate to the Constitutional Conventions of 1902 and 1912; trustee of the State Library; member of the Merrimack. County district draft board.

BOSCAWEN.- Willis G. Buxton, Republican (post-office address, Penacook); born in Henniker, August 22, 1856; educated at Clinton Grove and New London academies and Boston University Law School, class of 1879; lawyer; Congregationalist; married; Mason, Knight Templar, Odd Fellow; delegate to the Constitutional Conventions of 1889, 1902 and 1912, member of the House of Representatives of 1895 and the State Senate of 1897, delegate to the Progressive National Conventions of 1912 and 1916; secretary and trustee of the New Hampshire Orphans' Home and trustee of the Merrimack County Savings Bank.

CANTERBURY.- William W. Wheeler, Republican; born in Canterbury, April 12, 1852; public school education there; farmer; Protestant; unmarried; served four years on the board of selectmen and eight years on the school board of Canterbury.

CHICHESTER.- Frederick B. Shaw, Democrat; born in Chichester, June 28, 1870; educated there and at Manchester; farmer; Methodist; married, seven children; Odd Fellow, Patron of Husbandry; has been moderator, town clerk, selectman and member of school board.

CONCORD, WARD ONE.- Charles P. Coakley, Democrat (post-office address, Penacook); born in Penacook, March 17, 1875; public school education; hotel proprietor; unmarried; Catholic; Elk and Knight of Columbus; member of the House of Representatives in 1913 and 1915.

Elmer Ulysses Sargent, Republican (post-office address, Penacook); born in Belmont, March 29, 1871; educated at Gilmanton Academy, Tilton Seminary and Dartmouth Medical School; physician; Baptist; married, one son; Odd Fellow and Knight of Pythias; member of district, state and national medical societies.

WARD TWO - Philias P. Belanger, Republican (post-office address, Penacook); born at St. Joseph, P. Q., February 11, 1853; educated at Sainte Marie, P. Q.; Silversmith; Catholic; married; member of the Red Men and of the Foresters of America; has been ward supervisor.

WARD THREE.- Levin Joynes Chase, Republican (post-office address, West Concord) ; born in Philadelphia, in 1862, and educated there; manager, Concord Electric Company; Episcopalian; married; president, Concord Board of Trade (third term); member of Sons of American Revolution, Elks, Wonolancet and Snowshoe Clubs, N. H. Veterans' Association, N. H: Historical Society, Cataract Engine Company; member of the House of Representatives, 1913 and 1915.

WARD FOUR.-John Paul George, Democrat; born in Concord, January 21, 1856; graduate of Phillips Andover Academy, Dartmouth College, class of 1878, and Harvard Law School; lawyer; unmarried; Episcopalian; member of Wonolancet Club and Snowshoe Club.

James O. Lyford, Republican; born in Boston, June 28, 1853; educated in Boston public schools and Tilton Seminary; lawyer Unitarian; married, one son; chairman state bank commission, 1887-96, and 1915 to date; member of Legislatures of 1893, 1895, 1897, 1915, and delegate to Constitutional Conventions of 1876, 1902 and 1912; naval officer of the customs district of Boston and Charlestown, Mass., 1898-1913; secretary, Republican state committee, 1896 city auditor, Concord, 1896-98, secretary, Concord board of trade, 1913-15; member of Derryfield, Algonquin and Boston City Clubs; author, Life of E. H. Rollins, History of Canterbury, etc.

Frank Sherwin Streeter, Republican; born at East Charleston, Vt., August 5, 1853; educated at Dartmouth, A. B., 1874, LL. D., 1913; lawyer; Unitarian; married, son and daughter; clubs: Metropolitan, Cosmos, Chevy Chase, University (Washington), Union, Algonquin (Boston), Derryfield (Manchester), Wonolancet, Snowshoe (Concord) member, House of Representatives, 1885; president, Constitutional Convention, 1902; president, Republican State Convention, 1892; delegate-at-large, Republican National Convention, 1896; member, Republican, national committee, 1904-08; member, International Boundary Commission, 1911-13; trustee of Dartmouth College since 1892; past president of state bar association and state historical society; president of New Hampshire Defense League; member, executive committee, New Hampshire Committee on Public Safety.

WARD FIVE.- Arthur H. Chase, Republican; born in Concord, February 16, 1864; educated in Concord schools and at Dartmouth College, class of 1886; lawyer, state librarian, clerk of supreme court; Congregationalist; married, two children.

Fred C. Demond, Republican; born at Freeport, Me., November 3, 1875; educated there; lawyer; married; has served in Concord city council and board of aldermen and was a member of new city charter commission, 1908; state bar examiner since 1913; member, state and national bar associations, state historical society and Wonolancet Club.

WARD SIX. - John H. Brown, Republican; born in Bridgewater, May 20, 1850; educated in town schools and at New Hampton Literary Institution; retired from business; Congregationalist; married; 32d degree Mason and Shriner; member, Wonolancet Club; commissary general on Governor Busiel's staff, 1895-96 served as selectman, deputy sheriff and postmaster at Bristol; postmaster at Concord 1905-17; delegate to Republican National Convention, original McKinley man, and presidential elector, 1900; at one time railway mail clerk and later railroad freight and claim agent.

DeWitt Clinton Howe, Republican; born at Claremont, October 11, 1872; educated in Laconia public schools, at Colby Academy and Boston University; lawyer; married, two children; delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1902 and member of the House of Representatives in 1905, 1907 and 1909, serving on the judiciary committee at each session and its chairman in 1909.

Arthur F. Sturtevant, Republican; born in Springfield, Mass., September 29, 1864; educated in Concord schools; grocer; married, two sons; Unitarian; Mason, lodge, chapter, commandery; member of the House of Representatives of 1913; has served as supervisor, in the city council and for several years and at the present time in the board of aldermen, where he is on the board of public works.

WARD SEVEN.-Henry Harrison Metcalf, Democrat; born in Newport, April 7,1841; educated in public schools, at Mt. Caesar Seminary, Swanzey, and at the law- department of the University of Michigan, LL. B., 1865, A. M. (honorary), Dartmouth, 1913; member of the bar, editor and publisher of the Granite Monthly; Universalist; married, three children; Patron of Husbandry, state lecturer six years, and S. A. R.; delegate to every Democratic State Convention since 1867 (president, 1900); delegate to National Convention, 1876; state historian; president state Old Home Week association; former secretary, city and state boards of trade; party candidate for Congress, 1910.

Frank P. Quimby, Republican; born in Concord, September 22, 1856; educated in public schools and at Manchester Business College; Episcopalian; 32d degree Mason; railroad man for forty years and since 1912 secretary of the Concord Building and Loan association; served four years as alderman, one term each in the House of Representatives and State Senate and as delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912.

Albert W. Thompson, Republican; born in Gilmanton, May 5, 1861; educated there; janitor; Protestant; married, two children; Odd Fellow, lodge and encampment; has been deputy sheriff, moderator, twelve years, member of city council, member of Concord fire department twenty-three years.

WARD EIGHT.- Edson J. Hill, Democrat; born in Concord, October 19, 1857; educated at St. Paul's School; Episcopalian; banker and real estate; married; Mason and Knight Templar; member of the House of Representatives, 1899, 1903, 1905, 1907, 1909. Concord water commissioner and city library trustee; trustee Protestant Episcopal church in New Hampshire; officer of Hill Associates, Home Realty Company, Concord Light and Power Company, Eagle and Phenix Hotel Company, Mechanicks National Bank, Union Trust Company, United Life Insurance Company, Concord. Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Hill died May 18, 1918.

WARD NINE.- Charles J. French, Democrat; born in West Quincy, Mass., April 1, 1861; public school education; granite cutter by trade, past president of the state federation of labor; married, one son; five terms and at the present time mayor of Concord, following several terms as alderman;. Democratic candidate for Congress, 1914.

Joab Nelson Patterson, Republican; born in Hopkinton, January 2, 1835; educated at New Hampton Institution and Dartmouth College, class of 1860; farmer; Episcopalian; widower, two sons and daughter; 32d degree Mason and Knight Templar; member of G. A. R., Loyal Legion and Wonolancet Club; representative from Hopkinton, 1866; second auditor of United States treasury nineteen years; has been United States marshal and United States pension agent; enlisted as private in April, 1861, and served in Second New Hampshire Volunteers to December 19, 1865, participating in all battles in which the regiment was engaged and rising to Colonel and brevet brigadier general; served eighteen years in New Hampshire National Guard, ten years in command of regiment and five of brigade; and was a captain in First New Hampshire Regiment in Spanish War.

DANBURY.- Harry G. Dean, Democrat (post-office address, Grafton); born February 4, 1867, on the farm where he always has lived; educated at Proctor Academy, Andover; farmer; married; Patron of Husbandry; has been selectman, moderator, member of the Legislature, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912.

DUNBARTON.- John Bunten, Republican; born in Dunbarton, January 21, 1860, and educated there; postmaster and manager of Dunbarton Telephone Company; Home Baptist; married, three children; Mason; town treasurer twenty-one years.

EPSOM.- Charles F. Haynes, Republican (post-office address, Short Falls); born in Epsom, March 30, .1857, and educated there; house painter and carpenter; Christian Baptist; married; Odd Fellow; supervisor of checklist sixteen years.

FRANKLIN. Gilbert Hodges, Republican; born at Ea Brookfield, Mass., December 8, 1850; educated at Cambridge, Mass.; civil engineer; Baptist; married, four children; 32d degree Mason, Knight Templar, S. A. R., Society of Mayflower Descendants, member of Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association; served in Medford, Mass., common council two terms, one as president, three years on Medford board of health three years in Franklin city council.

WARD TWO.- Thomas N. Lapointe, Democrat; born at Lauzon, County Levis, Province of Quebec, Canada, October 26, 1873, and educated there; merchant; Catholic; married, one son; member of B. P. O. E., Catholic Order of Foresters and Jolliet Club; two terms city assessor, member of the House of Representatives in 1909 and 1911.

Hector Morin, Democrat; born at St. Celestin, Canada, November 6,1865; educated at Three Rivers, P. Q.; shoe dealer; Catholic; married, seven children; member of the city board of health; member of Association Canado Americaine, Artisans Canadien and Catholic Order of Foresters.

WARD THREE.- Walter F. Duffy, Republican; born in Franklin, June 17, 1872; educated at Tilton Seminary, Phillips Andover Academy and Dartmouth College; manufacturer; Unitarian; married; Mason; member of the House of Representatives of 1915 and 1917, serving on the committees on appropriations and manufactures.

Omar A. Towne, Republican; born in Stoddard, February 2, 1851; educated in common schools, Penacook Academy and Wolfeboro Christian Institute; editor and publisher; Baptist; widower, one daughter; 32d degree Mason, Odd Fellow, lodge and encampment; delegate to Constitutional Convention of 1902, twenty-three years member of board of education, former deputy sheriff, justice Franklin court ten years; state auditor printers' accounts six years; past president New Hampshire Weekly Publishers' Association and Franklin board of trade.

HENNIKER.- Curtis B. Childs, Republican; born in Henniker, August 23, 1845; educated at Henniker Academy and Dartmouth College; farmer; married; Patron of Husbandry;' has held various town offices.

HILL.- Ellon Sanborn Little, Republican; born in Hill, December 23, 1864, and educated there, in public schools; merchant; Protestant; married; 32d degree Mason, Knight Templar and Shriner, Odd Fellow; has been town clerk, town treasurer, selectman, representative to the general court and delegate to two previous constitutional conventions.

HOOKSETT.- Eugene S. Head, Republican; born in Hooksett, June 1, 1863; educated at Pembroke Academy and Dartmouth College; brick manufacturer; Methodist; married, son and daughter; 32d degree Mason; colonel on the staff of Gov. Frank W. Rollins; has held the various town offices, member of the House of Representatives in 1891 and of the State Senate from the ninth district in 1901.

HOPKINTON.- Henry C. Davis, Republican (post-office address, Contoocook); born in Warner, October 31, 1850; public school education; paper manufacturer; Protestant; married, two children; 32d degree Mason and Shriner; member of the Wonolancet Club, Concord; many years moderator in town of Warner and member of the House of Representatives from that town three times; member of the State Senate of 1907.

LOUDON.- Lewis L. Towle, Republican (post-office address, Pittsfield); born in Meredith, February 20, 1846, and educated there; farmer; Congregationalist; member of the House of Representatives of 1913, serving on the committees on towns and on unfinished business.

NEWBURY.- Joseph A. Donigan, Republican; born in Magog, Province of Quebec, June 30,. 1858; educated at Barnston, P. Q., Academy and Stanstead Wesleyan College; lawyer; religious belief, Liberal; married; Mason; delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912, serving on the special committee. on woman's suffrage.

NEW LONDON.- Justin Owen Wellman, Republican; born in Belgrade, Me., September 19, 1875; educated at Augusta, Me., and at Colby College; head master, Colby Academy; Baptist; married, two children; 32d degree Mason, grand patron, O. E. S., Odd Fellow, Patron of Husbandry; delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912.

NORTHFIELD.- Albert S. Carter, Republican (post-office address, Tilton); born in Barnet, Vt., May 26, 1876; superintendent of Carter woolen mills; attends Congregationalist church; married, one daughter.

PEMBROKE.- Lawrence C. Bates, Democrat (post-office address, Suncook); born in Pembroke, December 25, 1880; educated in town schools and at Pembroke Academy; decorator; unmarried; member of the House of Representatives of 1917, has been supervisor, selectman (chairman of board in 1915) and member of fire committee.

Edward M. Fowler, Democrat (post-office address, Suncook); born in Pembroke, September 27, 1868; educated at Pembroke Academy; grain dealer; Protestant; married, son and daughter; 32d degree Mason and Shriner; has held various town offices and was a member of the House of Representatives of 1913, serving on the committee on appropriations.

Charles B. Rogers, Democrat (post-office address, Suncook); born in Manchester, February 15, 1859; educated at' Pembroke Academy; lumberman; Methodist; married, one child; 32d degree Mason and Shriner, Odd Fellow, Moose and Patron of Husbandry; has served on the town board of education, as selectman, member of the House of Representatives and state senator.

PITTSFIELD.- Richard Bradley Bartlett, Republican; born in Pittsfield, July 23, 1878; educated in the Pittsfield High school and at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; manager and treasurer of the Maplehurst Fruit Farm, inc.; unmarried; member of the House of Representatives of 
1917 and selectman; director of Pittsfield National Bank, trustee Farmers' Savings Bank; member, several fraternal and patriotic orders.

Frank H. Sargent, M. D., Republican; born in Pittsfield, October 31, 1861; educated at Pittsfield Academy and at Dartmouth and Bowdoin Medical Colleges and by postgraduate work in New York; physician; Protestant; married; Mason, Odd Fellow and Patron of Husbandry.

SALISBURY.- John Shaw, Democrat (post-office address, West Salisbury); born in Salisbury, January 25, 1846; educated in town schools and at. East Andover Academy; retired miller and farmer; Baptist; married, two sons and a daughter; memebr Jr. O. U. A. M.; moderator twenty-five years, selectman fourteen years, town treasurer, member of school board, member of House of Representatives in 1883, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912.

SUTTON.- Herbert L. Pillsbury, Democrat (post-office address, North Sutton); born in Sutton, October 22, 1865; educated there; farmer and lumberman; Baptist; married, son and daughter; Patron of Husbandry, seventh degree; member of the Legislature of 1903, chairman of the board of selectmen six years.

WARNER.- Mason T. Ela, Republican; born in Warner, October 21, 1856; educated at the Simonds Free High School, Warner; lumberman; married, two daughters; Mason and Knight Templar; Baptist; has served as moderator and water commissioner.

WEBSTER.- Henry F. Pearson, Republican (post-office address, Penacook, R. F. D.); born in Webster, July 23, 1839; educated in town schools and academies; farmer; Congregationalist; married, three sons, two daughters, ten grandchildren, one great-grandchild.

WILMOT - Wesley S. Wells, Democrat (post-office address, West Andover); born in Danbury in 1875; educated there and at Tilton Seminary; farmer; Protestant; married, three children; has served as selectman and member of the Legislature.
  

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.