of the distance he has traveled in the prosecution of his work as an independent evangelist of the Second Advent faith, and the number of converts who have received the rites of baptism at his hands exceeds three thousand. He has labored in many sections of his own country, and also in other lands. Nova Scotia has been visited at nine different times, great success attending his meetings there, while one of the most remarkable chapters of his life's work covers his visit to the Sandwich Islands, where he spoke to thousands, and made many converts. A remarkable record was made in San Francisco, where he held meetings for eighty consecutive days, preaching three times each day. The Chronicle of that city, speaking of these meetings, in connection with a great Moody and Sankey revival which followed them, said: "Elder Hook is to Moody and Sankey what John the Baptist was to Jesus Christ. He has prepared the way for them." It has been said of Elder Hook, and without exaggeration, that he has baptized in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, in nearly all the rivers of New England, in hundreds of small streams, and in the East river, New York, when both the tide and ice were running high. Elder Hook was born in 1820; he was converted to the Second Advent faith in 1839, and began to preach in 1842. The fiftieth anniversary of his first sermon was celebrated by preaching three times in the school-house where he first delivered the Word. On the same anniversary day he dined in the house in which he was born. Although well along in the second half century of his work as an evangelist, his zeal has not lessened or his power diminished. Generous almost to a fault, and thinking least of all of the material results of his labors as a preacher, Elder Hook has withal been prospered. The section of the city of Concord in which he has for many years made his home and held largely of real estate, has lately become one of the most attractive residence portions of the city, and no one begrudges the good elder the competence which the boom in "West End" land has brought him. The companion of many years no longer sustains him with helpful sympathy and gentle offices, but her good qualities are preserved in the persons of children and grandchildren, whose constant care is that the aged elder shall want for nothing that loving hearts can suggest or willing hands supply. ROSTER OF THE SEVENTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE INFANTRY, INCLUDING ONLY MEN IN CAMP DURING WINTER OF 1862-63, AND NOT INCLUDING THE NEARLY SEVEN HUNDRED FROM THE THIRD DISTRICT TRANSFERRED TO THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH INFANTRY. OFFICERS.-FIELD AND STAFF. Colonel. Henry O. Kent. Adjutant.—George A. Wainwright. Acting Commissary.-Ira S. M. Gove. Surgeon.-James A. Folsom. Assistant Surgeons.-Luther C. Bean, Horatio N. Small. Chaplain.-George S. Barnes. CAPTAINS. Jared I. Williams, Company A. Isaac F. Jenness, Company B. Calvin S. Brown, Company C. FIRST LIEUTENANTS. James S. Brackett, Company A. Charles N. Kent, Company C. SECOND LIEUTENANTS. Joseph Chase, Company A. Ammi Farr, Company B. Josiah Bellows, Company C. |