Cheshire County New Hampshire

Delegates to the 1918 New Hampshire Constitutional Convention

THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
CHESHIRE COUNTY

ALSTEAD.- Chauncey J. Newell, Republican; born in Parishville, N. Y., April 4, 1864; educated there; dealer in grain and lumber; married, five children; Congregationalist; Mason, Odd Fellow; member of the House of Representatives of 1915.

CHESTERFIELD.- Harold E. Randall, Republican (post-office address, West Chesterfield); born at West Chesterfield, September 14, 1886; educated there; farmer; married; member of the Keene Commercial Club; has been selectman, highway agent, constable, fence viewer, member of the House of Representatives of 1917.

DUBLIN.- Harry A. G. Abbe, Republican; born in Hartford, Conn., August 8, 1870; educated at Hartford High School, Yale, A. B. 1892, and Hartford Theological Seminary, with postgraduate work at Union Theological Seminary; Congregational minister; married, four children; Patron of Husbandry; served as superintendent of schools at Stowe, Vt.

FITZWILLIAM.- Clarence M. Damon, Republican (post-office address, State Line); born in Fitzwilliam, April 17, 1877, and educated there; engaged in lumber business; Unitarian; unmarried; Mason; has been selectman, fire warden and representative to the Legislature.

GILSUM.- Osmon H. Hubbard, Republican; born in Sullivan, July 23, 1862; educated at Cushing Academy and McGill Medical College; physician and surgeon; Congregationalist; married; member of state and national medical associations and Keene Commercial Club; at present town clerk and town treasurer; has been selectman, member of Legislature of 1915, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912.

JAFFREY.- George H. Duncan, Democrat (post-office address, East Jaffrey); born in Leominster, Mass., December 23, 1876; educated at Murdock School, Winchendon, Mass., and Amherst College, class of 1899; druggist; Humanitarian; married, one child; Mason and Patron of Husbandry; postmaster; has been selectman, tax collector, member of school board, justice of district court, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912, member of the Legislature of 1915.

Will J. Mower, Republican (post-office address, East Jaffrey); born in Jaffrey, June 23, 1855, and educated there at the Conant High School; farmer; Congregationalist; married; Patron of Husbandry; selectman five years, member of the House of Representatives of 1899, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912.

KEENE, WARD ONE.- William J. Callahan, Republican; born in London, England, March 26, 1861; self educated; mechanic; Catholic; married, four children; P. G. C. R., Foresters of America, member of Eagles, Elks, Moose, A. O. H., C. O. F., P. of H.; has been selectman, councilman and three times member of the House of Representatives, serving as the chairman of the committee on labor in 1915 and 1917.

Charles M. Norwood, Republican; born in West Brookfield, Mass., October 23, 1844; common school education; box manufacturer; Unitarian; married, one child; member of all Masonic bodies, including consistory and shrine; has served as councilman and alderman, fifteen years on the city water board, three terms in the Legislature, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912, county commissioner at the present time.

WARD TWO.- Charles A. Madden, Republican; born in Keene, February 4, 1881; public school education; attorney-at-law; married; Mason; justice of the municipal court of Keene.

Jerry P. Wellman, Republican; born in Hinsdale, October 22, 1843; educated there and at Brattleboro and Newbury, Vt., academies; retired from business; Congregationalist; married, one son; Mason and, Patron of Husbandry; served fifteen years in the New Hampshire National Guard, inspector general six years; city clerk of Keene ten years, postmaster of Keene twelve years, three years in city council, member of the Legislature in 1887 and 1917, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912.

WARD THREE.- Frank Huntress, Republican; born in Lowell, Mass., February 7, 1847; educated at Phillips Andover Academy; merchant; married, four children; 32d degree Mason, Shriner, Red Man, Elk, Patron of Husbandry; member of the House of Representatives in 1907, 1909, 1911 and 1917, State Senator in 1913, member of Governor Spaulding's executive council in 1915-16.

William H. Watson, Republican; born in Leeds, England, August 4, 1879; educated at Dartmouth College, class of 1903; lawyer; married, four children; city solicitor of Keene.

WARD FOUR.- Edward A. Kingsbury, Republican; born in Surry, February 14, 1839, and educated there; farmer; Congregationalist; married, two sons, three daughters; served in the Civil War in the Sixth N. H. Vols. and First N. H. Heavy Artillery; past commander G. A. R., member of Grange and S. A. R.; has been selectman, councilman, several terms on school board, member of the House of Representatives of 1905.

WARD FIVE.- Wallace E. Mason, Republican; born in North Conway, June 24, 1861; educated at Bowdoin College and Harvard University; principal Keene Normal School; Congregationalist; married, three children; has served in the New Hampshire State Guard; Mason, Eastern Star, Patron of Husbandry; director Keene Commercial Club; president American Institute of Instruction.

MARLBOROUGH.- Merrill Mason, Democrat; born in Dublin, June 2, 1865; educated in Marlborough schools and at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Business College; farmer; Congregationalist; married, one son; Patron of Husbandry, Odd Fellow, president Cheshire County Farmers' Association; selectman nineteen years, member of the House of Representatives in 1909, member of the advisory board of the state department of agriculture.

MARLOW.- Rockwell F. Craig, Republican; born in Topsham, Vt., April 30, 1852; self-educated; manufacturer; Presbyterian; Mason, Knight Templar, P. of H.; delegate to the Constitutional. Conventions of 1902 and 1912.

NELSON.- Fred A. Scott, Republican (post-office address, Munsonville); born in Keene, August 21, 1862; district school education; Unitarian; married, two children; Odd Fellow; member of the House of Representatives in 1903; has been moderator, selectman, town clerk, tax collector, etc.

RICHMOND.- Stephen A. Bullock, Democrat (post-office address, Winchester, R. F. D. 3); born in Richmond, February 9, 1857; educated there; farmer; Universalist; married, two children; member of the I. O. O. F., P. of H., U. O. G. C.; selectman twenty years, member of the Legislature in 1909 and 1913, has been moderator and road agent.

RINDGE.- Harris H. Rice, Republican; born in Rindge, April 2, 1881, and educated there; real estate dealer; married, five children; member of the Patrons of Husbandry and Elks, and Wonolancet Club, Concord; has been tax collector, selectman, overseer of the poor, library trustee, trustee of town trust funds, member of the Legislature in 1915 and 1917.

ROXBURY.- Thomas Manly Dillingham, Republican (post-office address, Marlborough) born at Dover, Me., 1850; educated at Colby, Academy, Dartmouth College, Boston University (M.D.) and in Germany; farmer; married; Swedenborgian; member of the House of Representatives of 1915.

STODDARD.- Henry E. Spalding, Republican; born in Mont Vernon March 8, 1868; educated at Lyndeborough; farmer, sheep breeder and drover; Congregationalist; married, one child; member of I. O. O. F. and P. of H.; has served as selectman, member of the school board and road agent.

SULLIVAN.- Eugene Marston, Republican; born in Gilsum, August 16, 1867; educated in district schools and New Salem Academy farmer; Congregationalist; married, one child; member of the Legislature of 1915; has served on school board and moderator and trustee of town trust funds; at present serving ninth year as selectman.

SURRY.- Mason A. Carpenter, Republican; born in Surry, December 5, 1845; public school education; carpenter' and builder; has been selectman and town treasurer, member of the House of Representatives in 1881 and 1897.

SWANZEY.- Frank S. Faulkner, Democrat (post-office address, West Swanzey); born April 25,_1857; educated at Keene High School; unmarried; Boston & Maine railroad station agent for thirty-three years; Congregationalist; Odd Fellow; many terms selectman, member of the Legislature of 1917.

TROY.- Asa C. Dort, Republican; born in Marlborough in 1843; educated in town schools and at Tilton Seminary; manufacturer; Congregationalist; married; served in the First New Hampshire Cavalry in the War of the Rebellion; has held all town offices and was a member of the Legislature in 1879 and 1881.

WALPOLE.- Alfred Clarke, Republican; born in England in 1849 and educated there; retired from business, formerly president and manager gas and electric companies; Episcopalian; married, one child member of the Algonquin Club, Boston, Boston Athletic Association and Boston Press Club.

William J. King, Republican (post-office address, Bellows Falls, Vt.); born in 1862; public school education; engaged in paper manufacturing; Catholic; widower, two children; member of the Knight of Columbus and Foresters of America; member of the Republican state committee; has served in the Legislature and on the school board.

WESTMORELAND.- Asa A. Whitman, Republican (post-office address, Westmoreland Depot); born in Londonderry, Vt., February 21, 1863; high school education; superintendent of Cheshire county farm twenty-seven years, to 1916; married, two children; Odd Fellow and Red Man; served in the Vermont militia; member of the Legislatures of 1913 and 1917 and has been moderator, etc.

WINCHESTER.- LaFell Dickinson, Democrat (post-office address, Ashuelot); born in Winchester, March 29, 1869, and educated there; lumber manufacturer; Congregationalist; married, one child.

George W. Peirce, Republican; born in Winchester, April 24, 1833; educated in public schools and academies of New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and New York and Berkshire Medical College, Pittsfield, Mass.; physician and surgeon; religious belief, Liberal; widower, four children; surgeon of the First New Hampshire Cavalry in the Civil War and surgeon general on the staff of Governor Moody Currier; member of the G. A. R., Grange and American Red Cross; has served in the House of Representatives and State Senate, many years trustee of State Hospital and has held all town offices.
  

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.