Sullivan County New Hampshire

Delegates to the 1918 New Hampshire Constitutional Convention

THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
SULLIVAN COUNTY 

ACWORTH.- Henry A. Clark, Republican (post-office address, South Acworth); born in Acworth, January 21, 1860; educated there; United States mail carrier; religious, belief, Golden Rule; unmarried; Odd Fellow and Granger; ten years selectman, member of the House of Representatives in 1903 and 1909.

CHARLESTOWN.- Frank W. Hamlin, Republican; born at North Charlestown, June 14, 1863; public school education; merchant and banker; Episcopalian; married; Odd Fellow; member of the House of Representatives in 1903 and of the State Senate in 1909; town and school treasurer, municipal court justice, Silsby free public library trustee.

CLAREMONT.- Henry E. Charron, Democrat; born in Canada, March 5, 1861; educated there and in the States; clothing and furnishings merchant; Catholic; Elk and member of St. Jean Baptiste society; widower, four children; member of the House of Representatives in 1913 and in 1917.

Ira G. Colby, Republican; born in Claremont, January 11, 1872; educated at Stevens High School, Dartmouth College, class of 1894, and Boston University Law School, class of 1897; lawyer; Methodist; married, five children; member Claremont Country Club; trustee of trust funds of town of Claremont, supervisor, county auditor, special justice municipal court, trustee Fiske Free Library; delegate to Constitutional Convention of 1902, member of Legislature, 1905.

George W. Paul, Democrat; born in Claremont, August 17, 1850; educated in town schools there; printer by trade; married, one child; twice postmaster of Claremont, member of the House of Representatives of 1905, and has held various town offices.

Hiram G. Sherman, Republican; born in Wayland, Mass., April 5, 1845; public school education; town clerk; Baptist; widower, one child; served three years in the Civil War with 29th and 35th Massachusetts Volunteers; member of the G. A. R., Masons, Shrine and Elks; member of the House of Representatives in 1903, and 1905, deputy sheriff two years, town clerk since 1908.

CORNISH.- William E. Beaman, Republican (post-office address Windsor, Vt.); born in New York City in 1881; educated at Harvard College; farmer; married; member of the House of Representative in 1913, 1915 and 1917, chairman of the committee on Agricultural College; prominent in County Farm Bureau agricultural work.

CROYDON.- Edgar W. Davis, Republican; born in Sunapee, August, 18, 1863; educated in town schools and at Kimball Union Academy Meriden; farmer; Congregationalist; married; Patron of Husbandry; now serving his seventeenth term as selectman, is school treasurer, has served on board of education and was delegate to the Constitution Convention of 1912.

GOSHEN.- Willard R. Whitney, Republican; born in North Yarmouth, Me., July 12,1855; educated at Lisbon, Me.; real estate dealer; Congregationalist; married, two sons; 32d degree Mason, Knight Templar, Shriner, Odd Fellow; for twenty-two years was in the United States railway mail service; while resident at Methuen, Mass was member of the cemetery commission there.

GRANTHAM.- Perley Walker, Democrat; born in Grantham, July 24, 1863; educated in town schools; farmer; married, two daughters and two sons; number of the House of Representatives of 1901; fifteen years selectman, chairman of the board at the present time, moderator twenty years, member, of the school board three years.

LANGDON.- William Hall, Republican (post-office address, R. F. D. Charlestown) ; born in Claremont, March 23, 1850; educated at Keene; farmer; Liberal in religious belief; married, five children; master of Warren Pond Grange, also member of Pomona and State Granges; has been town clerk, selectman, member of school board.

LEMPSTER:- Arthur L. Benway, Democrat; born in Cornish, May 18, 1860; public school education; farmer; Protestant; married, two children; has served in the National Guard; member of P. of H., K. of P. and Red Cross; president of Sullivan County Agricultural Association; has been selectman, member of school board, road agent, overseer of poor, trustee of trust funds.

NEWPORT.- Jesse Morton Barton, Republican; born in Newport, January 21, 1870; educated at Kimball Union Academy, Dartmouth College, Boston University Law School; lawyer; Methodist; married, two children; Mason, Odd Fellow, member of Psi Upsilon college fraternity; member of the House of Representatives of 1901; president of State Senate of 1917, delegate to Constitutional Conventions of 1902 and 1912; chairman Republican state committee, 1912-14; judge of probate, 1906-17, two years trustee of state Industrial School, trustee of Newport Savings Bank, Richards Free Library and M. E. church.

John L. Dame, Republican; born in Chichester, April 27, 1866; educated at Pembroke Academy and Manchester business college; real estate, insurance, coal and ice business; Baptist; married, one son; Odd Fellow, lodge and encampment; member of the House of Representatives of 1907, member of town and state Republican committees and delegate to the Republican state convention of 1906.

Frank A. Rogers, Republican; born in Marlow, April 2.0, 1865; educated there and at Charlestown; hardware dealer; Methodist; married, four children; served five years in New Hampshire National Guard; member of Knights of Pythias; has been selectman and served in the Legislature of 1913.

PLAINFIELD.- Frank W. True, Republican (post-office address, Windsor, Vt., R. F. D. 3); born in Lebanon in 1863; educated at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden; farmer; married; Baptist; member of the House of Representatives of 1903, serving on the committee on agricultural college; six years selectman.

SPRINGFIELD.- Curtis J. Nichols, Republican (post-office address, West Springfield) ; born in Grantham, January 31,1878; district school education; farmer; Methodist; married, three daughters and two sons; town clerk since 1916; chief registrar and associate member legal advisory board.

SUNAPEE.- Murvin A. Bailey, Democrat; born in Sunapee, December 15, 1856; educated there and at Fitzwilliam; farmer; Protestant; married, three children; Odd Fellow; has been selectman, delegate to Constitutional Convention of 1912.

UNITY.- Frank Reed, Republican; born in Unity, July 24, 1854; common school education; farmer; Protestant; married, three children; Odd Fellow and Patron of Husbandry; town clerk and treasurer.

WASHINGTON.- Sumner N. Ball, Republican; born in Washington, June 3, 1854; educated in town schools and Tubbs Academy; hotel keeper and farmer; Baptist; married, three children; master of Lovell Grange eight years; served five years in National Guard; member of the House of Representatives, 1903, county commissioner six years, selectman nineteen years, member of school board twelve years.
  

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.