History of Concord, (Merrimack County) New Hampshire United States of America

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George Gilman Fogg, senator, was born in Meredith, N.H., May 26, 1813; son of David and Hannah Gilman (Vickery) Fogg. He gained a college education by teaching at various schools and academies and was graduated at Dartmouth in 1839. He studied law at home and at the Harvard law school and practised at Gilmanton. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1846; secretary of state, 1846-47; delegate to the Free Soil convention of 1848, the Pittsburg convention of 1852, the Republican conventions of 1856 and 1860, and the Loyalist convention of 1866. He was secretary of the Republican national committee, 1856-64; edited the Independent Demoerat, 1854-61 and 1865-71; was U.S. minister to Switzerland, 1861-65; U.S. senator, 1866-67, in place of Daniel Clark, resigned; and delegate to the Loyalists' convention at Philadelphia, Pa., 1866. He was an active member of the New Hampshire historical society and a fellow of Bates college, 1875-81. He received from Bates the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1874, and gave to that institution $15,000. He died at Concord, N.H., Oct. 5, 1881.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Charles Lewis Hutchins, clergyman, was born in Concord, N.H., Aug. 5, 1838; son of George and Sarah Rolfe (Tucker) Hutchins; grandson of Abel and Elizabeth (Partridge) Hutchins, and a descendant of Col. Gordon Hutchins, and of the Rev. Dr. John Tucker, of Newbury, Mass. He was graduated at Williams, A.B., 1861, A.M., 1864, and at the General Theological seminary in 1865. He was ordained a deacon, July 11, 1865, and a priest, Oct. 1, 1865. He was rector of St. John's church, Lowell, Mass., 1863-69; assistant at St. Paul's cathedral, Buffalo, N.Y., 1869-72, and rector of Grace church, Medford, Mass., 1890; was assistant secretary of the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church, 1871 and 1874, and secretary, 1877, 1880, 1883, 1886, 1889, 1892, 1895 and 1898. He received the honorary degree of M.A. from Trinity in 1871; that of D.D. from Griswold in 1888, and from the University of the South, 1899. He became editor of The Parish Choir in 1874, and published: Sunday School Hymnal (1871); Annotations of the Hymnal (1872); Church Hymnal (1879);Sunday School Hymnal and Service Book (1880); Church Psalter (1896); Pointed Prayer Book (1897), and other musical service books.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Onslow Stearns, governor of New Hampshire, was born in Billerica, Mass., Aug. 30, 1810; son of John and Mary (Lane) Stearns; grandson of Isaac and Sarah (Abbot) Stearns, great-grandson of Obed Abbot, and a descendant of Isaac and Mary Stearns, who came to America in the ship Arbella with Governor Winthrop, Sir Richard Saltonstall and others. They landed in Salem, Mass., June 12, 1630, and soon after settled in Watertown, Mass. Onslow Stearns attended the local academy; removed to Boston in 1827, and to Virginia in 1830. With his brother he was employed in building the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and in 1833, forming a partnership, contracted to build several large railways. He removed to New Hampshire in 1837, and was married, June 26, 1845, to Mary Abbot, daughter of Adin and Polly (Warren) Holbrook of Lowell, Mass., who died in Concord, N.H., in 1895. He was president of the Northern railroad, 1852?78, and of the Concord and Old Colony railroads; a Republican state senator, 1862?64, serving as president of the senate during his last term; was a delegate to the Republican national convention in Baltimore in 1864, and was governor of New Hampshire, 1869?71. He died at Concord, N.H., Dec. 29, 1878.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

John Bell Bouton, author, was born at Concord, N. H., March 15, 1830; son of Nathaniel and Mary Ann P. (Bell) Bouton, and a grandson of Gov. John Bell of New Hampshire. He was graduated at Dartmouth college in 1849, and qualified himself for the legal profession, but before admission to the bar, became associate editor of the Plaindealer, Cleveland, Ohio, and was a contributor to Godey's, Peterson's and other American magazines. Removing to New York in 1856 he was editorially attached to the New Yorker, American Times, and Momus, and finally joined the staff of the N.Y. Journal of Commerce, with which he remained connected, as editor, owner, and director until 1889. For many years he was scientific editor of "Appleton's Annual Cyclop?dia." He retired from active journalism in 1889. Among his published works are: "Life of George Lippard" (1856); "Loved and Lost" (1857); "Round the Block" (1864, 5th ed. 1868); "Treasury of Travel and Adventure," a "Memoir of Gen. Louis Bell" (1865); "Roundabout to Moscow; a European Journey" and "The Enchanted, an Authentic Record of the New Psychical Club" (1891). He died in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 18 1902.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor