Grafton County New Hampshire

Delegates to the 1918 New Hampshire Constitutional Convention

THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. 
GRAFTON COUNTY

ALEXANDRIA.- Perley H. Sleeper, Republican (post-office address Bristol, R: F. D. 1); born in Bristol, December 1, 1866; educated in district schools and at New Hampton Institution; farmer; married member O. U. A. M.; selectman, 1912-17; member of the House of Representatives of 1915.

ASHLAND.- Tie vote between Rev. Theodosius S. Thyng and Albion Kahler.

BATH.- Edward Woods, Democrat; born in Bath, October 24, 1835 educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Dartmouth College; lawyer aide-de-camp on staff of Governor James A. Weston; member of the House of Representatives in 1873-74 and of the State Senate in 1893 served as county solicitor and has held all town offices. 

BENTON.- Lebina H. Parker, Democrat (post-office address, Woodsville, R. F. D.,2); born in Benton, November 8, 1855, and educated there; farmer and summer hotel, keeper; Christian Scientist; Mason, lodge and chapter, and Odd Fellow; delegate to the Constitutional Conventions of 1902 and 1912, four sessions a. member of the Legislature, thirty-four years selectman, moderator since 1900, etc.

CAMPTON.- Willard C. Pulsifer, Republican (post-office address, Plymouth, R. F. D. 5); born in Campton, May 11, 1858; educated in town schools and Kimball Union Academy; farmer; Congregationalist, married, two sons; member of Grange and County Farm Bureau; has been selectman, road agent and supervisor

CANAAN.- James B. Wallace, Republican; born in Canaan, August 14, 1866; educated at St. Johnsbury Academy, New Hampshire College, Dartmouth College, class of 1887, and Columbia Law School; lawyer; Congregationalist; married; 32d degree Mason, Knight Templar and Shriner, Knight of Pythias and D. O. K. K., Elk and Patron of Husbandry; member of House of Representatives of 1909, State Senate of 1913, Executive Council of 1915, judge of police court, member of school board, library trustee, trustee of trust funds, moderator.

DORCHESTER.- Azro H. Schoolcraft, Republican (post-office address, Cheever); born in Hyde Park, Vt., December 30, 1856; educated there and at Lowell, Mass.; farmer, formerly cotton manufacturer; Baptist; married, four sons; served five years in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia; Mason, Odd Fellow and Patron of Husbandry; in Lowell, Mass., served as a precinct officer and on the school board; now serving eighteenth year as tax collector of Dorchester; also, health officer.

EASTON.- Charles A. Young, Democrat; born in Easton, March, 7, 1858; educated in town schools. and at New Hampton Institution; lumber and bobbin manufacturer; Liberal in religious views; married, one child; delegate to the Constitutional Conventions of 1902 and 1912; member of the House of Representatives of 1905, eighteen years chairman of, the board of selectmen, town clerk nine. years, many, years postmaster.

ELLSWORTH.- Henry B. Keniston, Democrat (post-office address, Rumney); born in Campton, January 40, 1866; common school education; farmer; unmarried; has been chairman of the board of selectmen, member of the House of Representatives of 1915.

ENFIELD.- Joseph B. Perley, Republican (post-office address, Lebanon) ; born in Vermont, January 26, 1881; educated at Brewster Free Academy, Dartmouth College and Brown University; cattle dealer; Congregationalist; married, son and daughter; Mason; member of the House of Representatives, 1911 and 1913, State Senator, 1917; director of the People's Trust Company, Lebanon.

FRANCONIA.- Philip Wheelock Ayres, Progressive; born in Winterset, Iowa, May 26, 1861; educated at Cornell University, 1884 Johns Hopkins University, 1888, Cornell Forest School, 1900; forester Society for Protection of New Hampshire Forests; married, two children; member of the Appalachian Mountain Club.

GRAFTON.- Fred Gage, Republican; born at Enfield, August 29, 1862; town school education; farmer, livery stable keeper, wood and lumber dealer; Universalist; married, two children; Mason and Granger; moderator and town treasurer.

GROTON.- Willard H. Hunkins, Republican; born in Groton, February 12, 1866; educated at Bristol; farmer; Congregationalist; married, three children; Patron of Husbandry has been representative in the Legislature and held, various town offices.

HANOVER.- Edwin J. Bartlett, Republican; born in Hudson, Ohio, February 16, 1851; educated at Dartmouth College and Rush Medical College; professor in Dartmouth College; Congregationalist; married, four children; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the Graduate Club, Hanover, Ouriboros Club, American Chemical Society, N. H. Historical Society, N. H. Medical Society (honorary) ; has been moderator of the town of Hanover, member of the House of Representatives in 1913.

For second delegate from the town of Hanover the vote was declare a tie between Horace F. Hoyt and Prof. Frank A. Updyke.

HAVERHILL.- Luther C. Butler, Republican (post-office address, Woodsville); born in Woodsville, July 30, 1871; educated there and at Mount Hermon School; grain and implement dealer; Congregationalist; married; Odd Fellow; commissioner of Woodsville fire district member of the House of Representatives of 1917.

William E. Lawrence, Republican (post-office address, North Haverhill) ; born in Eden, Vt., August 1, 1871; educated at the University of Vermont and Baltimore Medical College; physician; Liberal in religious belief; married, one child; Mason, lodge and chapter; thirteen years member of school board; delegate to Constitutional Convention of 1912, member of House of Representatives, 1913, trustee of state institutions, 1915-17.

Herbert Eldredge Smith, Republican (post-office address, Pike); born in Rutland, Vt., August 16,1881; educated at Haverhill Academy; treasurer acid general manager of the Pike Manufacturing Company; Congregationalist; married, one son; Mason, lodge and chapter member Old Colony Club; present member of the board of selectmen of Haverhill.

HEBRON.- Frank O. Morse, Democrat (post-office address, East Hebron) ; born in Hebron, March 13, 1849; educated in town schools and at Eastman's business college; farmer; religious belief, "that which will do the most good"; married, four children; Odd Fellow, lodge and encampment, Patron of Husbandry; member of the House of Representatives in 1893, town treasurer for twenty-seven years, moderator, supervisor, tax collector, justice.

HOLDERNESS.- Nathan B. Cox, Republican (post-office address, Ashland R. F. D. 1); born in Holderness, October 4, 1849; educated at New Hampton Literary Institution; farmer; married, one child; Patron of Husbandry; has been selectman, tax collector twelve years, supervisor.

LANDAFF.- Charles E. Noyes, Democrat (post-office address, Lisbon); born in Landaff, July 25, 1866; educated at Tilton Seminary and Tufts College; lumber manufacturer; Protestant; married, one child; Mason, Knight Templar, Eastern Star, Delta Upsilon fraternity; member of school board, for several years selectman.

LEBANON.- Frank U. Bell, Republican; born in Lebanon' in 1869; educated at the University of Florida; manufacturer; Mason; married, one child; has served as captain in the New Hampshire National Guard; president of the Lebanon Board of Trade.

John Byrne, Democrat; auctioneer and merchant.

Fred Andros Jones, Republican; born in Stoneham, Mass., April 9, 1884; educated at Nashua High school, Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School; lawyer; Liberal in religious belief; married, four children; member of Masons, Elks, Knights of Pythias, Patrons of Husbandry, Sons of Veterans, Langdon and Sunset Clubs of Lebanon; member House of Representatives of 1913, judge municipal court moderator, member Republican state committee.

Alfred E. Lord, Democrat; born in England, February 18, 1858; educated there and in this country; woolen mill superintendent; Methodist; married; Mason, lodge, chapter and council; member Lebanon Chamber of Commerce. 

Thomas P. Waterman, Republican (post-office address, West Lebanon); born, in Lebanon, December 10, 1843; educated at Kimball Union Academy; lumberman; Congregationalist; married; Mason, Knight Templar, Shriner, Patron of Husbandry, member of Langdon Club; eighteen years selectman, member of the House of Representatives, 1877, 1878, 1913, 1915, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912, member school board, public library trustee, president People's Trust Company.

LINCOLN.- Alfred Stanley, Republican; born in Barnet, Vt., January 2, 1857; educated in town schools and at St. Johnsbury Academy; manager pulp and paper mills; Protestant; married, eight children; Mason; has been selectman, supervisor, representative of the town of Plymouth in the Legislature and State Senator from District Number Three.

LISBON.- George W. Pike, Democrat; born in Haverhill, August 19, 1882; educated at Lisbon High School and University of Maine Law School; lawyer; Methodist; married; public library trustee; municipal court justice; past grand master I. 0. 0. F. grand lodge of New Hampshire; Rebekah; Mason, lodge, chapter and council.

William E. Price, Republican; born in Woodstock, Ill., May 9, 1873; educated at Brown University, A. B. and A. M.; secretary and treasurer New England Electrical Works; Congregationalist; married, son and daughter; Mason; town moderator, member First District fuel committee, president town Republican club.

LITTLETON.- Fred H. English, Democrat; born in Hartland, Vt., January 8, 1858; educated at Littleton; forty years a merchant there; Congregatonalist; married; 32d degree Mason, past commander St. Gerard Commandery; has been selectman, member board of education, trustee of public funds, vice-president Littleton National Bank. 

Harry M. Morse, Republican of the Old School; born in Haverhill, March 22, 1857; educated there and at Lisbon; lawyer; married; has been superintendent of schools at Lisbon and justice of the municipal court at Littleton.

George A. Veazie, Democrat; born at Stark, February 26, 1874; educated there, at Mechanics Falls (Me.) High School and at the Portland Business College; wholesale dealer in lumber and pulpwood; married, three children; Methodist; 32d degree Mason, Knight Templar, Shriner, Odd Fellow; delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912, member of the House of Representatives of 1915, selectman, library trustee and school board member.

LIVERMORE.- Voted not to send a delegate to the convention.

LYMAN.- John E. Clough, Democrat (post-office address, Lisbon); born in Lyman, December 13, 1850; common school education; farmer; unmarried; Mason since 1880; selectman, town clerk and town treasurer several times, member of the House of Representatives in 1889 and 1899.

LYME.- David A. Grant, Republican; born in Lyme, September 24, 1856; educated in town schools and Thetford, Vt., Academy; farmer; Congregationalist; married, two children; Patron of Husbandry; delegate to constitutional convention of 1912, member of the Legislature of 1897, has been selectman, member school board, highway agent; for the past seven years clerk and treasurer of both the town and the school district.

MONROE.- Daniel R. Gilchrist, Republican; born in Barnet, Vt., April 4, 1843; educated at McIndoes, Vt., Academy; merchant and farmer; Presbyterian; married, six children; served four years in the Civil War; member of the G. A. R., Grange and Odd Fellows; delegate to Constitutional Convention of 1912, has been selectman, census enumerator and representative to General Court.

ORANGE.- Frank H. Wendell, Republican (post-office address Canaan, R. Y. D. 2); born in Woburn, Mass., November 30, 1847; educated there; manufacturing chemist; Methodist; married, seven children; president, Mascoma Valley Fish and Game Association; seven years councilman at Fairview, New Jersey; selectman and school board member at Orange.

ORFORD.- Alvah M. Stevens, Republican; born in Orford, July 16, 1860; educated in town schools; farmer and lumberman; married, or daughter, three sons; Congregationalist; Mason and Patron of Husbandry; has been selectman, road agent, member of House of Representatives of 1913.

PIERMONT.- Orlo Eugene Barnard, Republican; born in Waitsfield, Vt., June 26, 1882; educated at St. Albans, Vt., High School and University of Vermont, A. B. 1908; Congregational clergyman; married, two children; Patron of Husbandry and Odd Fellow; formerly superintendent of schools at Island Pond, Vt.

PLYMOUTH.- Frank J. Beal, Democrat; born in Orford, November 11, 1862; educated there; merchant; married, one child; Congregationalist; Mason; member of the State Senate of 1913 from District Number Four; appointed state fish ;and game commissioner by Governor Samuel D. Felker.

Alvin F. Wentworth, Republican; born in Moultonborough, June 6, 1867; educated at New Hampton Literary Institution and the University of Michigan; lawyer; Protestant; married, one son;, 33d degree Mason; has been member of the Legislature and Constitutional Convention delegate and has held various town offices.

RUMNEY.- Edward A. Elliott, Republican; born in Rumney, June 24, 1865; educated there and at New Hampton; crutch manufacture Protestant; married, one daughter; Odd Fellow; judge of municipal court, overseer of the poor, road agent, selectman five years, chairman, three, member of the Legislature of 1909.

THORNTON:- John F. Merrill, Democrat (post-office address, Campton R. F. D. 1) born in Thornton in 1865 and educated there; farmer; Odd Fellow; has held various town offices and was a member of the House of Representatives of 1897, serving on the committee on retrenchment and reform.

WARREN.- Frank C. Clement, Progressive Democrat; born in Warren, May 28, 1853; educated in common schools and at Tilton Seminary; wholesale potato dealer; Unitarian; married, six children; past master of Grafton County Pomona Grange; representative in the Legislatures of 1897, 1899 and 1915, delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912, chairman of the school board and chairman of the town board of library trustees since its organization.

WATERVILLE.- John H. Foster, Republican; born in Waltham, Massachusetts, April 13, 1880; educated at Norwich University and Yale University; manager of Elliott's Hotel; Unitarian; married, one child; 32d degree Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine.

WENTWORTH.- David L. Goodwin, Democrat; born in Warren, July 25, 1850; educated there; farmer; Liberal in religious belief; married, one son; Patron of Husbandry; member of the House of Representatives in 1909; has been selectman.

WOODSTOCK.- Elmer E. Woodbury, Republican; born in Woodstock, February 27, 1865; educated there and at Franconia; farmer and builder; Liberal in religious belief; married, two children; member of K. of P., P. of H., United Order of Puritans; writer of note under nom de plume of Justus Conrad; town clerk two years, chairman of selectmen four years, delegate to Constitutional Convention of 1902; member House of Representatives of 1909 and State Senate of 1915.
  

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.