HON. CHARLES A. DOLE Charles A. Dole, long a prominent citizen of Lebanon, and well known throughout the state for many years as a member of the State Board of Equalization, died at his home in that town, April 1, 1914.

Mr. Dole was born June 20, 1834, in Lunenburg, Mass., the only son of Stephen and Martha Pierce Dole. He was educated at the Lawrence, Mass., high school, and at the old Orford Academy in this state, his father having returned during his youth to the old home in Wentworth. On account of delicate health, he was unable to pursue a college course, but engaged to some extent in teaching, and early took up the study of law, being admitted to the bar at the age of 23 years, and appointed clerk of the Court for Grafton County a year later, a position which he held for sixteen years. He removed to Lebanon in 1875, where he ever after continued, in the practice of his profession, and in insurance and other office work, establishing a wide reputation for ability and trustworthiness. He was prominent in educational and general public affairs, having served on the Board of Education and as one of the Library trustees for many years; also representing the town in the Legislature and Constitutional Convention, as well as serving about twenty years, from 1883, upon the State Board of Equalization.

Mr. Dole, married, first, Miss Caroline L. McQuesten of Plymouth; second, Miss Helen M. Stevens of Haverhill. A son and two daughters survive.

HON. ROBERT M. WALLACE

Robert Moore Wallace, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire for twelve years, from its creation in 1901 till November, 1913, when he resigned on account of continued ill health, died at his home in the town of Milford on the 5th of April, 1914.

Judge Wallace was a native of the town of Henniker, son of Jonas and Mary (Darling) Wallace, born May 2, 1847. His father, who was a merchant in Henniker, was of Scotch Irish descent, his ancestors having been among the early settlers of Londonderry, and was prominent in business and public life in his day. Robert M. fitted for college at the Academy in Henniker, entered Dartmouth at the age of sixteen and graduated with honor in the class of 1867, soon after commencing the study of law in the office of the late Col. Mason W. Tappan of Bradford, then an ex-Congressman, and later Attorney-General of the state. He was adImitted to the bar in 1870 and located in practice in Milford the following year, where he continued through life, being for some years associated in practice with the late

Hon. Bainbridge Wadleigh. He was a representative from the town of Milford, as a Republican, in 1877 and 1878, and a delegate in the Constitutional Convention of 1889. He was also for ten years-from 1883 to 1893, Solicitor for Hillsborough County, being appointed in the latter year an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by Gov. John B. Smith, which position he held, till the reorganization of the Judiciary in 1901, when he became Chief Justice of the Superior Court. He was also Judge Advocate General upon the staff of Governor Smith during the two years of his term. From 1906 to

1910, he was a member of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College.

On the bench, as at the bar, and in every relation which he held to the public in general, and to his fellow men individually, Judge Wallace commanded respect and confidence by his unquestioned honesty, integrity and thorough devotion to the spirit of impartial justice.

Judge Wallace was a Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a devoted member of the Congregational Society of Milford, whose stately edifice was filled by the townspeople and many friends from abroad, including members of the bench and bar from all sections, on the occasion of the funeral service.

He married, August 25, 1874, Ella M. Hutchinson, by whom he is survived with

three children-two sons and a daughterEdward D. of Kansas City, Mo.; Robert B. of Boston, and Miss Helen M., at home.

DR. DANIEL G. BROCKWAY Daniel G. Brockway, M. D., for the last forty years a practising physician of Lebanon, died in that town April 16, 1914.

He was a native of Pomfret, Vt., born October 4, 1847, and was educated at Randolph, Vt. Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, and Dartmouth College, graduating from the latter in 1870. He studied medicine with Dr. L. B. How, of Manchester, and later received the degree of M. D. from the University of New York. He commenced practice in Lynn, Mass., but soon removed to Lebanon, and there continued through life.

He was for a time, soon after locating in Lebanon, Assistant demonstrator of anatomy and physiology at the Dartmouth medical School, but soon relinquished the position on account of his growing practice. He served for a time as Superintendent of Schools, and also as a Pension examiner.

He married, June 15, 1874, Miss Fannie E. How, who survives him.

HENRY K. FRENCH

Henry Kendall French, long known as the proprietor of French's Hotel in Peterborough, died in Duluth, Minn., March 25, 1914.

He was a native of Jaffrey, born January 21, 1826, but removed with his parents to Peterborough in childhood where he grew up in the hotel business, succeeding his father in that line. He was also engaged in staging and the express business between Peterborough and Wilton. He took a strong interest in railway development and was for a number of years president of the Monadnock Railroad. He was a close business associate of the late Benjamin P. Cheney, and for many years had the care of the Peterborough estate of the latter.

He had been twice married, and for the last six years had resided with his son, George A. French of Duluth, Minn., who accompanied his remains to Peterborough, where the funeral occurred on Monday, March 30.

HON. JAMES L. DAVENPORT

James L. Davenport, a native of the town of Hinsdale, born January 27, 1845, died at West Falls Church, near Washington, D. C., April 2, 1914.

Mr. Davenport spent his boyhood in Keene, where his parents had removed, and after the outbreak of the Civil War, after ineffectual attempts to enlist at home, ran away, went West, enlisted in Company B, Fourth Wisconsin Volunteers, and went to the front. After several months' service he was

disabled by illness and dismissed, but was subsequently enrolled in the Forty-ninth Wisconsin, but was unable to serve. Returning home, he served as clerk in a store in Keene some time; but in 1870 became a traveling salesman for Silas Pierce & Co., of Boston. In 1881 he received an appointment in the Pension Bureau at Washington, where he continued, being promoted till in 1897 he was made Deputy Commissioner of Pensions, and in 1909 became Commissioner, serving until the advent of the present administration. He was a straight partisan Republi can, and had no other hobby.

ELLERY E RUGG

Ellery E. Rugg, born in Sullivan, June 7, 1841, died in Keene, March 30, 1914.

Mr. Rugg was the son of Capt. Harrison and Sophia (Beverstock) Rugg. He was educated in the public schools and at a select school in East Jaffrey taught by Columbus I. Reed. He learned the trade of a blacksmith in youth which he followed for a time; but later became a carpenter, and was thus engaged for many years. Later he was for some time engineer in the Symonds tannery, at West Keene, and afterward janitor of the Symonds School.

He was best known from his connection with the Grange, in whose work he was specially active and prominent for many years, holding various positions in the State Grange, including that of Overseer; serving long as a District Deputy, and officiating often and efficiently at installations. His knowledge of Grange work was exceptionally accurate, and his popularity in the order unsurpassed.

He was twice married. His first wife was Miss Sabrina S. Barrett of Stoddard, who died in Keene, in 1885. His second wife, who survives him, was Miss Ella E. Foster, a native of Stoddard. He was one of six children of Capt. Harrison Rugg, only one of whom, Hon. Daniel Willard Rugg of Sullivan, a former state senator, now survives. He had no children by either marriage.

JAMES S. BRACKETT

James Spaulding Brackett, long a wellknown and respected citizen of Lancaster, died at his home in that town, May 7, 1914.

He was a descendant of Anthony Brackett, who settled in Portsmouth in 1632, and a grandson of Joseph Brackett, one of the early settlers of Lancaster, who went there in 1788, by ox team through the Crawford Notch, and located on a 200-acre lot on the present South Lancaster road, building a log cabin and establishing his household, where he was succeeded by his son, Adino N., father of James S., who was also long a prominent citizen of the town.

Mr. Brackett was born September 29,

1827. He was principally engaged in agriculture in youth, but though not liberally educated, was of a studious nature, and by reading and observation became thoroughly well informed, and became both a teacher and land surveyor. His experience in the latter line made him a valuable member of the joint boundary commission establishing the line between New Hampshire and Maine in 1858. He was a lieutenant in the 17th New Hampshire Volunteers raised for the Union Service in 1864, under Col. Henry O. Kent, which was subsequently merged with another regiment, and he also held a position in the Boston Custom House during the incumbency of the latter as Naval Officer. He was a life-long Democrat, a Unitarian, a Mason, and a Past Commander of Col. E. E. Cross Post, No. 16 G. A. R. of Lancaster.

He married, December 26, 1850, Miss Mary Emerson of Lancaster, who died in 1882, leaving five children-four daughters and a son, James Adino, of Milton, Mass., all of whom are living.

CHARLES H. DOW

Charles H. Dow, a leading citizen of Tamworth for some time past, and a native of that town, born in 1836, died there April 9.

Mr. Dow was for many years a member of the firm of Edward Russell & Co., now R. G. Dow & Co., mercantile agency, of Boston, retiring about twenty years ago and taking up his residence in the town of his birth, where he has been a helpful public-spirited citizen, his loss being widely deplored. He was a Democrat in politics, and became a close friend of the late ex-President Cleveland during the summer sojourning of the latter in the vicinity.

Mr. Dow was twice married. His first wife was Sarah E. Hunt, who died in 1888. In 1891 he married Annie E. Butterfield, who survives him, with a daughter, Mrs. Lewis A. Crossett of Boston.

ANDREW S. WOODS

Andrew Salter Woods, son of Edward Woods, well-known lawyer of Bath, and grandson of the famous Chief Justice Andrew S. Woods, for whom he was named, died at his home in Littleton, where he had removed on account of failing health, May 19, 1914.

He was in the fortieth year of his age, having been born in Bath, December 31, 1874. He was educated at St. Johnsbury, Vt., Academy, at the Hopkinson School in Boston,

and studied one year at Harvard University, at the end of which time he engaged in brokerage in Boston, later entering the employ of the firm of Hornblower & Weeks, in which he became a partner in 1906.

Mr. Woods was a member of several prominent clubs, and is survived by a widow and three children, the former having been Martha Sinclair Fowler, a daughter of Rev. and Mrs. C. J. Fowler, and a grand-daughter of the late Hon. John G. Sinclair.

The death, some weeks since, of Mrs. Nancy King Dickey of Alstead, widow of James A. Dickey, removes the third of a somewhat notable group of people of that community, consisting of two brothers, John F. and James A. Dickey and their wives, who were also sisters, daughters of the late Samuel and Sophia (Egerton) King, all being natives of the town of Acworth, but longtime residents of Alstead, where, seven years ago, they celebrated, together, the fiftieth anniversary of their double wedding. John F. Dickey passed away in April, 1913, and James A. but a few days before his wife, so that Mrs. John F. Dickey is the sole survivor of this remarkable quartette, which had long been a prominent factor in the social life of the community in which they lived.

December 31, 1913. As the year closed, the local historian peacefully and quietly passed from this mundane sphere to, we trust, a more glorious one. Charles Sumner Spauldding was born and reared in that portion of old Holles known prior to 1870 as Monson, 1746-70, a section of the old township of Dunstable of the County of Middlesex Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England, granted 1673. Monson had a corporative life of twenty-four years. His forbears were many of them octogenarians, the maternal connections being from leading families of the early settlers. His grandfather's grandfather was Rev. Sampson Spaulding, native of Chelmsford, Mass., and pastor at Tewksbury, Mass. So he was trained in, and listened to, historic lore. Having a methodical turn of mind and cultured memory, from time to time he recalled or penned many facts and incidents as well as gathered records of the Monsonians of that period and of their descendants.

Hollis at its late annual town meeting voted to buy of his widow the said records, and elected a committee to so do.

OBSERVATOR.

The General Conference of the Congregational Churches of New Hampshire, being the 105th Annual Meeting, was held in the North Congregational Church at Portsmouth, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, May 19, 20, 21, the opening session being on Tuesday evening, when the address of welcome was delivered by Rev. L. H. Thayer, pastor of the North Church; response was made by Edward G. Osgood of Nashua, Moderator of the Conference; and the annual sermon was delivered by Rev. W. O. Conrad of Keene. The report of the statistical secretary and treasurer, Joseph Benton, of Concord, was a leading feature of Wednesday morning's session; while in the afternoon were held the annual meetings of several of the allied and contributory organizations, including the Home Missionary Society, whose annual financial report was presented by Alvin B. Cross of Concord, treasurer. The leading address at Wednesday evening's session, and the ablest during the Conference, was given by Rev. Charles R. Brown, D. D., of New Haven, Conn., Moderator of the National Council. At the closing session Thursday morning, Rev. R. H. Wentworth of Orford was elected moderator for the ensuing year; C. W. Emerson of Milford, vice-moderator, and Rev. E. R. Smith of Concord, secretary. Various Committee reports were presented, and the closing address was given by Rev. Albert W. Howes of Fitzwilliam. There was a large attendance throughout, and much interest and enthusiasm manifested.

Reference to the New Hampshire Congregational Conference suggests the projected Conference of the Congregationalists of New England, scheduled to take place at the Isles of Shoals, where the Unitarians have held a summer Conference for a number of years past, covering the last days of July and the first ten days in August, it following, immediately, the Unitarian Conference. An ambitious and interesting two weeks programme has been laid out, and there is promise of a profitable session. Rev. Thomas Chalmers of Manchester is president of the organization backing this project, and Rev. John L. Sewall of Worcester, Mass., is secretary. Exceptionally low rates of entertainment have been secured at the hotels for those attending and strong efforts will be made to insure a large representative gathering.

Two notable events are announced to occur at the Shoals on July 29 and 30, both of historic interest. One is the dedication of

a monument to Rev. John Tucke, who was the first ordained pastor of the Church at Gosport (embracing the Isles of Shoals), serving for about forty years in the pastorate, previous to the Revolutionary period. The monument has been provided for by Edward Tuck of Paris, and is to be dedicated under the auspices of the New Hampshire Historical Society. The other event is of kindred nature, being the dedication of a tablet in memory of the notable Capt. John Smith the "Father of Virginia," who discovered the Isles of Shoals, on one of his adventurous expeditions, in 1614, three hundred years ago. A monument in his memory, erected here fifty years ago is being rehabilitated by the Society of Colonial Wars, which will also affix and dedicate the tablet.

Two important political candidacies have been formally announced in the state during the past month. Mr. Rolland H. Spaulding, the wealthy leatherboard manufacturer, of Rochester, responding to the call of some of the party leaders who have long regarded him as an available man, has yielded to their wishes and published an announcement of his candidacy, for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, following the formal declination of Charles S. Emerson of Milford to be a candidate, thus making probable a straight contest between himself and Rosecrans W. Pillsbury of Londonderry, already in the field. The other announcement is the long-expected one of Senator Gallinger as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Senator for the term of six years from March 4, next, which, should he be nominated, elected, and serve out the term, would give him a thirty year period of service in the Senate.

Another political event of interest and importance, as bearing upon the outcome of the next election in this state, was the muchtalked about Conference of the leaders of the Progressive party in the state, at Manchester, May 23, at which there was a good attendance and free and full discussion, ex-Governor Bass taking a prominent part; and which resulted in the determination to have a full ticket in the field, and to amalgamate with no other party; though there was a strong expression of desire on the part of many of those present to endorse the candidacy, for senator, of Congressman Raymond B. Stevens, should he be put forward by the Democrats, against Senator Gallinger.