Rockingham County New Hampshire

Delegates to the 1918 New Hampshire Constitutional Convention

THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY. 

ATKINSON.- Eugene E. Sawyer, Republican; born in Atkinson,  March 24, 1866; educated at Atkinson Academy and Manning School,  Ipswich, Mass.; farmer and owner of canning factory; Liberal in religious belief; unmarried; member of the Grange and United Commercial Travelers; library trustee, academy trustee, selectman, two years chairman of board.

AUBURN.- Henry Colman Sanborn, Republican (post-office address, R. F. D. 1); born in Auburn, September 1, 1850; town school education; farmer; Congregationalist; married, five children; Mason; delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1902, supervisor of the checklist continuously since 1896.

BRENTWOOD.- Burton L. Smith, Republican (post-office address, Exeter, R. F. D. 1); born in Brentwood, July 2, 1863; educated there and at Watson Academy, Epping; farmer; married, three children; Baptist; Patron of Husbandry; has served as chairman of selectmen; member of the House of Representatives in 1917, serving on the committee on retrenchment and reform.

CANDIA.- Benjamin F. Lang, Democrat; born in Candia, November 19, 1858; educated at Pembroke Academy; farmer and marketman; Protestant; married, three children; Mason and Patron of Husbandry; selectman two years and at the present time; member of the House of Representatives in 1909, serving on the committee on state prison, and in 1917, serving on the committees on insurance and normal schools.

DEERFIELD.- Charles R. Brown, Republican (post-office address, Leavitt's Hill); born in Deerfield, October .21, 1860; educated there, at Pembroke Academy and Tilton Seminary; farmer; Congregationalist; married, one daughter; Mason, York and Scottish Rite, member of Bektash Temple, A.A.0.N.M.S., Patron of Husbandry; has been town clerk, town treasurer, selectman and member of the Legislature of 1893.

DERRY.- Edmund R. Angell, Republican; born at Scituate, R. I., October 4, 1848; educated at Bates College, class of 1873; chemist; married, one son; religious belief, Golden Rule and the two Great Commandments; Mason, Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias and Red Man; has been selectman; member of the House of Representatives  in 1891.

Benjamin T. Bartlett, Republican; born in Haverhill, Mass., November 9, 1872; educated at Dean Academy, Williams College and Boston University Law School; Lawyer; Universalist; married, four children; Mason, Blue Lodge and Knight Templar, Mystic Shrine, Odd Fellow, Eagle, member of Derryfield Club, Manchester; judge of Derry police court, 1906-12; member of the House of Representatives, 1915, chairman of committee on revision of statutes.

Walter R. Sanders, Republican (post-office address, Derry Village); born in Epsom, July 12, 1862; educated at Pinkerton Academy, Dartmouth College, Boston and Chicago medical schools; physician; Congregationalist; married, one daughter; member of the I. 0.0. F., K. of P., N. E. 0. P., A. 0. U. W., Golden Cross, N. H. Homeopathic Medical Society; health officer eighteen years, member of the House of Representatives of 1915, serving on the committee on public health.

Edwin B. Weston, Republican; born in Manchester, March 15, 1871; educated at Manchester High School, Phillips Andover Academy, Dartmouth College, Boston University Law School; lawyer; Protestant; married; Mason, member of the Derryfield Club; member of the Legislature of 1909, serving on the committee on revision of statutes, associate justice of the Derry municipal court, member of the school board.

EAST KINGSTON.- Frank B. Tilton, Democrat; born in East Kingston, June 25, 1860; educated there and at Kingston; farmer; Universalist; married, three children; member of the Junior 0. U. A. M.; has served as selectman and tax collector and was a member of the House of Representatives of 1917, serving on the committees on insurance and on towns.

EPPING - Joseph A. Edgerly, Democrat; chairman of the board of the board of selectmen.

EXETER.- Charles S. Bates, Republican; born in Holbrook, Mass., March 4, 1856; educated there and in Boston; shoe manufacturer; Congregationalist; widower, two children; member A. B. C. F. M.

John Scammon, Republican; born in Stratham, September 30, 1865; educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Boston University Law School; lawyer; married, five children; Congregationalist; 32d degree Mason and Red Man; member of the House of Representatives in 1903 and 1905, president of the State Senate in 1907, member of the State Senate in 1913, member of the Executive Council, 1915-16, delegate, to the Constitutional Convention of 1912.

Ernest G. Templeton, Republican; born in Exeter, July 14, 1880 educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College and Harvard Law School; lawyer; Unitarian; unmarried; selectman; treasurer Robinson Female Seminary.

Albert S. Wetherell, Exeter; Republican; born in Norridgewock, Me., October 5, 1851; educated at the Eaton School, Norridgewock pharmacist; Unitarian; married; member of the House of Representatives in 1893 and 1895, state senator in 1901, delegate to Constitutional Convention of 1902, member of the Republican state committee and executive committee, member of the state pharmacy commission former president of the state pharmaceutical association, has held various town offices.

FREMONT.- Stephen A. Frost, Republican; born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, January 15, 1862; educated at South Antic, Mass.; cooperage and lumber manufacturer; Universalist; married, two children Mason, Odd Fellow, Patron of Husbandry; member of the Boston City Club; has served his town on the school committee, as auditor and trustee of trust funds.

GREENLAND.- Nathaniel P. Ordway, Republican; born in Milan, May 20, 1842; educated is the town schools of Gilead, Me.; blacksmith; married, one daughter; Mason; served in the Civil War in the 23d Maine and 9th New Hampshire Regiments; member of the House of Representatives of 1901, serving on the committee on manufactures.

HAMPSTEAD.-Frank W. Emerson, Republican; born in Hampstead,  January 18, 1866, and educated there; shoe manufacturer; Congregationalist; Mason; delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912.

HAMPTON.-Joseph B. Brown, Democrat; born in Hampton, July 19, 1862, and educated there; market gardener;-Congregationalist; unmarried; member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; for twenty years a member of the board of selectmen, several terms its chairman.

HAMPTON FALLS.- Walter B. Farmer, Republican; born in Arlington, Mass., April 5, 1876; educated in the public schools and at Goddard Seminary; farmer; married, two children; Mason, Elk, Patron of Husbandry, member of the Rockingham County Farmers' Association, New Hampshire Poultry Growers' Association, New Hampshire Fish and Game League, Massachusetts Fish and Game Association, Exeter Gun Club and Boston Athletic Association.

KENSINGTON.- Herbert M. Prescott, Republican; (post-office address, Exeter) ; born in Kensington, February 12, 1873; educated at the Exeter High School and Boston business college; grocer and school teacher; Congregationalist; married; member of the Grange and Kensington Gun Club; has been postmaster, town clerk, justice of the peace and health officer.

KINGSTON.- Henry L. Sweeney, Republican; born in Bridgewater, Mass., April 3, 1858; educated at Hanover Academy, Adams Academy and Harvard; physician; religious belief, "not to be classified"; widower; Mason, Odd Fellow, member of national, state and county medical societies; has been town clerk, moderator, school board member, library trustee, health officer.

LONDONDERRY.- Rosecrans W. Pillsbury, Republican (post-office address, Derry); born in Londonderry, September 18, 1863; educated at Pinkerton, New London and Phillips Andover academies and Dartmouth College; member, New Hampshire bar; orchardist; attends Presbyterian church; married, three children; has been captain in the New Hampshire National Guard; Mason, Knight Templar, Shriner, Patron of Husbandry, Elk, Knight of Pythias, member of Derryfield, Manchester, Algonquin and Athletic, Boston, and Army and Navy, New York, Clubs; moderator twenty-five years, member of the Legislature four terms and delegate to four constitutional conventions.

NEWCASTLE.- Oliver B. Marvin, Democrat; born in Portsmouth, October, 16, 1879; educated in public and private schools at Portsmouth; collector; Episcopalian; married, two sons; Elk and Knight of Pythias; has been town clerk, auditor, member of the board of health, selectman and member of the House of Representatives of 1909, serving on the committee on banks.

NEWFIELDS.- Bert P. Doe, Republican; born in Newmarket, September 8, 1874; public school education; newspaper correspondent; Universalist; unmarried; has served as town auditor and school district clerk.

NEWINGTON.- Jackson Morton Hoyt, Democrat (post-office address, Portsmouth, R. F. D. No. 1); born in Newington, January 15, 1850; educated there at the "little red schoolhouse"; farmer, in youth a "country pedagogue"; Congregationalist; married, four sons and four daughters; has been town clerk twelve years; tax collector, selectman, school board member, highway agent, justice of the peace, church sexton, thirty-four years; church clerk , twenty-five years; superintendent of burials fifty-one years.

NEWMARKET.- Louis Philippe Beaudet, Democrat; born at St. Pierre les Becquets, Canada; educated at Quebec; medical' practitioner; Roman Catholic; married, six children; member of Lafayette Club, Catholic Fraternal League, Catholic Order of Foresters and St. Jean Baptiste d'Amerique.

George H. Towle, Jr., Democrat; born in Deerfield, August 7, 1872; educated at Dartmouth College, class of 1897, and the medical school of the University of Vermont, class of 1900; physician and surgeon; Protestant; married; member of Red Men and Pascatoquack Club; has been moderator, chairman of the board of selectmen, member of school board, chairman Democratic town committee.

George H. Willey, Democrat; born in Middleton, February 3, 1863; public school education; hotel proprietor; Protestant; married, one son; member of the K. of P., Red Men, Elks, Eagles, Foresters of America, Exeter Gun Club; member of the Legislature of 1893 from Middleton and delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912 from Newmarket.

NEWTON.- John Enoch Hayford, Democrat; born in Newton, May 28, 1871; educated there; builder of automobile bodies and carriage manufacturer; Baptist; married, two children; Mason, Lodge, chapter, council, consistory and. shrine, Odd Fellow, Patriarch Militant, Patron of Husbandry; has been fire chief, town treasurer, chairman Public Safety Committee, delegate to Constitutional Convention of 1912.

NORTH HAMPTON.- Thomas B. Shaw, Republican; born at Hampton, December 4, 1850, and educated there; farmer; married; Congregationalist; member of the House of Representatives of 1911, serving on the committee on county affairs.

NORTHWOOD.- John G. Towle, Republican (post-office address, Northwood Ridge); born in Northwood, January 17, 1860; educated .at Coe's Northwood Academy; farmer; married, three children; Mason; has been selectman and member of the House of Representatives of 1917, serving on the committees on education and claims.

NOTTINGHAM.- Arthur W. McDaniel, Republican (post-office address, East Barrington) ; born in Nottingham, April 24, 1885; educated at Northwood Seminary and New Hampton Institution; farmer and breeder of Guernsey cattle; Congregationalist; married; seventh degree Patron of Husbandry, five years district deputy, and at present assistant steward, of State Grange; has been selectman and member of school board; at present library trustee and chairman of Public Safety Committee; member of the House of Representatives of 1917, .serving as chairman of the committee on roads, bridges and canals.

PLAISTOW. - Fred P. Hill, Republican; born in Sandown, December 16, 1867; educated in public and private schools; engaged in shoe business; Protestant; has been selectman and was a member of the House of Representatives in 1909, 1911, 1915 and 1917; and delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912.

PORTSMOUTH, WARD ONE.- Thomas Entwistle, Republican; born in Hyde, England, January 12, 1840; public school education; for many years chief of, police, now retired; Episcopalian; married, three -children living; volunteer in Civil War; member of the G. A. R., Masons, Odd Fellows and Navy League; member of the State Senates of 1905, 1907 and 1909 and of the executive council of Governor Robert P. Bass, 1911-12.

Edward Percy Stoddard, Republican; born in Portsmouth, January 2, 1877; educated at Portsmouth High School and Dartmouth College; insurance business; unmarried; 32d degree Mason, commandery .and shrine, Knight of Pythias, member of the Warwick, Portsmouth Country, Athletic and Yacht Clubs; deputy United States marshal 1903-07, former member of the Portsmouth city government; member of the Legislatures of 1911 and 1913.

WARD TWO.- Alfred F. Howard, Republican; born in Marlow; educated at Marlow Academy and Tilton Seminary; lawyer and secretary of the Granite State Fire Insurance Company; Congregationalist; married, one son; Mason and member of the Warwick Club; has been collector of the port of Portsmouth and police commissioner of the city of Portsmouth; chairman of the state board of fire underwriters.

Calvin Page, Democrat; born in North Hampton August 22, 1845; educated at Phillips Exeter Academy; "and as member of the New Hampshire bar since 1868"; bank and insurance company president; religious belief, "neutral"; married, one daughter, Mrs. John H. Bartlett; Mason, Knight Templar, member of state historical society, bar association, etc.; received honorary degree of Master of Arts from Dartmouth in 1902; delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1889, three times state senator, former mayor of Portsmouth, collector of internal revenue, etc.

Frederick. M. Sise, Republican; born in Portsmouth, January 24, 1867, and educated there; insurance business; Unitarian; two children; president Portsmouth chamber of commerce; delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912.

WARD THREE.- Thomas A. Ward, Republican; merchant. William Cogan, Democrat; cooper.

WARD FOUR.- William J. Cater, Republican; born in Brockville, Ontario, and educated there; merchant; married; Episcopalian; 32d degree Mason, Knight of Pythias, member of Warwick,' Portsmouth Athletic and Country Clubs; two terms alderman-at-large, city of Portsmouth, member of the House of Representatives of 1913 and 1915.

WARD FIVE.- Eugene B. Eastman, Republican; born at Trenholm, Quebec, August 26, 1877; educated at New Hampshire College, Tufts College, McGill University; surgeon; Protestant; married; 32d degree Mason, Knight Templar, Shriner, Elk, member of Warwick Club, has served in the Portsmouth city council and as delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912.

RAYMOND.-- David L. Fellows, Democrat; born in Pittsfield, January 21, 1866; town  school. education; machinist; Protestant; unmarried; past chancellor, Lamprey Lodge, Knights of Pythias, Raymond; member of the board of supervisors of town of. Raymond.

RYE.- Albs R. H. Foss, Democrat (post-office address, Portsmouth); born in Rye, February 29, 1856, and educated there; traveling salesman;, Protestant; married, two children; member of the I. 0. 0. F. and Junior 0. U. A. M.

SALEM. - Frank D. Wilson, Republican (post-office address, Salem Depot) ; born in Salem, February 15, 1858, and educated there; grocer; married; 32d degree Mason, Patron of Husbandry, member of Salem Board of Trade; selectman nine years, member of the House of Representatives in 1895 and 1911.

Chester Tenney Woodbury, Republican; born in Salem, January 6, 1885; educated at Pinkerton Academy, Dartmouth College, A. B., 1907, Boston University Law School, LL. B., 1911; attorney-at-law; Congregationalist; married, three children; Mason, Knight of Pythias; seven years tax collector of Salem and at present. 

SANDOWN.- John W. Lovering, Republican; born in Raymond, November 27, 1856.; educated at Raymond, at Hampton Academy and at Bryant and Stratton's Business College; manufacturer for thirty-three years of tubs and pails; Protestant; married; Mason; town treasurer for fifteen years; delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1912.

SEABROOK.- Phineas F. Beckman, Republican; born in Seabrook, July 9, 1862, and educated there; farmer; married, two children;  Protestant; Odd Fellow; has served as highway commissioner, member  of the House of Representatives of 1915, serving on the committee on fish and game.

SOUTH HAMPTON.- Charles F. Floyd, Democrat (post-office address,  Amesbury, Mass., R. F. D. 1); born in Centreville, Me., June 30, 1876;  educated there, at Kingston and at the Barnard School, South Hampton; farmer; married; Methodist; member of P. of H. and A. O. U. W.; has been superintendent of streets, tax collector and member of the Legislature of 1915.

STRATHAM.- Charles Wilbur Whitcomb, Republican; born in Boston, Mass., July 31, 1855; educated at Dartmouth College, class of 1876, and at Boston University, LL.B., 1880; lawyer and business man; fire marshal, state of Massachusetts, 1894-1902.

WINDHAM.- Frederick J. Hughes, Republican (post-office address, Windham Depot, R. F. D. 1); born in Windham; educated at Pinkerton Academy, Derry; farmer; unmarried.
  

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.