ated about a mile out of the village upon the Center Harbor road, commanding a fine view of the bay and surrounding scenery. He received a good practical education, having graduated at the Meredith High School and the Commercial College at New Hampton. He married Lucy M. R. Neal of Tuftonborough in 1904. They have one son, William J. Neal.

Mr. Neal is a member of Winnipesaukee Grange, and was master of that organization in 1901 and 1902. He is a Democrat in politics and has served as selectman of the town eight years, being now chairman of the board, and in other town offices.

He was appointed a member of the Board of Agriculture for Belknap County in 1912, serving until the board was legislated out of existence last September. He is a member and vice-president of the New Hampshire Dairymen's Association, and a director of several big fair associations. Not only is Mr. Neal a prominent citizen of Meredith, public spirited and a pusher for the good of the town, but is widely known all over New England as a successful farmer, cattle breeder and dealer in live stock.

Since 1895 he has been a breeder of Devon cattle and has developed one of the best herds of that breed in the United States, carrying off the honors at all the big western fairs as well as those of New England. In 1909 he took a carload of thoroughbred Devon cattle to the Pacific Coast, showing at the California, Oregon and Washington fairs. He won blue ribbons in nearly all the classes in which he exhibited and completed his string of victories by winning over many competitors at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition at Seattle, and is now mak

thrifty farmers of Meredith, and his farm, overlooking the water, between Meredith Village and "The Weirs," is accounted one of the most valuable

in the county. He was formerly a large breeder of Hereford cattle, and his stock was shown extensively at the fairs. He married Miss Jane Wadleigh of Meredith, now deceased. He has a son, J. Frank Neal of Boston, distributing agent for the Standard Oil Company, and two daughtersMrs. C. A. Clark of Laconia, and Sarah E. Neal, at home. The latter is an active worker in Winnipesaukee

ing preparations for the Panama Exposition in 1915. He also has a herd of thoroughbred Holsteins.

Mr. Neal runs a retail milk business in town, supplying his customers with about 350 quarts per day. He is actively engaged in the buying and selling of live stock, shipping one or more carloads each week to Boston markets, and is considered one of the best judges of weights and quality in that line of business.

JOHN M. NEAL

John M. Neal, son of Joseph, one of the early settlers, is one of the most prosperous among the many

Grange, of which her father was a charter member. He is a Baptist in church affiliation and independent in politics.

THE DAVIS STOCK FARM

One of the best known stock farms in central New Hampshire is the Davis Stock Farm in Meredith, on the Center Harbor road, of which Capt. C. E. Davis and his son, Edward P., are the proprietors, the latter being the manager, Captain Davis spending the most of his time in business in Boston. This farm, which includes 75 acres of tillage land, 110 of pasture and 120 of wood and timber,

boarders. He also supplies milk for Camp Anawan, of twenty-five girls, on Lake Winnipesaukee. He is a Congregationalist, a Democrat, has been twice a member of the board of selectmen, and has charge of building the state road in town.

HOLLIS L. WIGGIN

The second member of Meredith's board of selectmen, of which William

tions for a goodly number of summer boarders, is of the best in all respects.

LEWIS A. HIGGINS

The third member of the board of selectmen, is Lewis A. Higgins, a native of Limington, Me., born December 30, 1866, but a resident of Meredith for the last twenty years. He, also, is a successful farmer, with a well-stocked and well-cultivated farm of one hundred and fifty acres, dairying and pork production being his specialties. Honesty and industry are his characteristics, and his standing in the community is indicated by his three successive unanimous elections to the position he now holds.

CHARLES N. ROBERTS

Meredith's representative in the last legislature was Charles N. Roberts. He is a native of the town, born January 29, 1869; a Democrat in politics, educated in the common schools and classed in the "Brown Book" as a farmer, merchant and manufacturer. He served on the committee on towns. He is a Mason, and has a wife and three children.

Hollis L. Wiggin

H. Neal is chairman, is Hollis L. Wiggin, another enterprising young farmer, son of Edwin F. Wiggin, long known as one of the most prosperous and successful agriculturists and stock breeders in the state, whose fine Durham herds have carried off first prize at many a New Hampshire and New England fair. The Wiggin farm, of which Hollis L. is now the foreman, his father having earned a respite from the details of management, is located on the Laconia road with fine surrounding scenery. contains many hundred acres, of which about seventy-five are under cultivation, the product of which is surpassed by few equal areas in the country. The general equipment of the farm, which includes accommoda

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GEN. CHARLES S. COLLINS

Gen. Charles S. Collins of Nashua, long a prominent citizen, and familiarly known as Dr. Collins, died at his home in the southern part of the city November 16, 1913, after a long illness.

Dr. Collins was a native of the town of Grafton, born April 21, 1853, the family subsequently removing to Loudon. He was educated at Colby Academy and Boston University, studied medicine and engaged in practice in Nashua in 1873, continuing till 1888, when he retired from practice, having become a large owner in a mineral water business, of which he was general manager, the product being widely known as "Londonderry Lithia."

He had been prominent in public and political life, had served in both branches of the Nashua city government and of the state legislature; was commissary general on the staff of Gov. Nahum J. Bachelder, and was himself a prominent candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 1904. He had been twelve years a member of the Nashua Board of Education, and president of the same. He had been president of the Nashua Board of Trade, and of the State Board, in whose work he took a deep interest.

His home at South Nashua was formerly the old "Little Tavern," which he had transformed into an elegant establishment, which he called "Charlesmont.' He had bought much surrounding land, fitted up handsome grounds, and engaged extensively in breeding fancy poultry, being president of the Nashua Poultry Association at the time of his death. He was also a good deal of a sportsman and for some years owned the Nashua baseball team in the New England League.

Dr. Collins married, in 1893, Miss Anna L. King, daughter of Aaron King of Nashua, who died leaving one son, William King Collins. In 1899 he married Miss Eleanor Carey, who survives him, with three sonsCharles S., Philip T. and Russell S. Collins. FRANK E. BARNARD

Frank E. Barnard, born in Franklin February 17, 1871, died at Winchester, Mass., September 13, 1913.

Mr. Barnard was the son of the late Hon. Daniel Barnard, once attorney-general of New Hampshire. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Dartmouth College, graduating from the latter institution in 1891. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1894, and for some time previous to his death had been in practice in Boston, in partnership with Isaac F. Paul, his residence being in Winchester.

He left a daughter and two sons.

HON. FRANKLIN P. GOODALL

Hon. Franklin P. Goodall of Holyoke, Mass., a native of the town of Deering, 79 years of age, died September 19, 1913, at his summer home on the old family homestead in Deering. He had been a resident of Holyoke nearly half a century, where he was for many years engaged in business as a druggist. He was a member of the Holyoke city council several years, and its president in 1878. In 1881 he was elected mayor, serving one term. He was the oldest surviving ex-mayor of the city at the time of his. death. He had never married, and left no relatives nearer than nieces. He had always. spent his vacations upon the old farm in Deering, owned by his father and grandfather, and which continued in his possession.

MOSES A. PACKARD

Moses A. Packard, one of the pioneer shoe manufacturers of Brockton, Mass., died at his home in that city November 22, 1913.

Mr. Packard was a native of New London, N. H., where he was born in 1843, his parents removing to North Bridgewater, now Brockton, Mass., when he was quite young. His father was a shoemaker and he was brought up to the business, following the same through life, except for about a year during the Civil War, when he was in the Union service. After several years he adopted the plan of making a special shoe and advertising it extensively, which plan he followed with much success, being the first to adopt it. His firm was that of M. A. Packard & Co., and was long a leading firm in Brockton.

Mr. Packard was a Mason, a member of Fletcher Webster Post, G. A. R., and had been a member of the Brockton Board of Aldermen.

DR. THOMAS O. REYNOLDS

Thomas Osgood Reynolds, M. D., for more than forty years a prominent physician of the town of Kingston, died at his home in that town December 11, 1913.

Dr. Reynolds was a native of the town of Chester, a son of Rev. Thomas F. and Mary (Currier) Reynolds, born December 24, 1842, and was educated in the public schools and Chester Academy. He enlisted as a private in the Eleventh New Hampshire Regiment in the Civil War, August 26, 1862, serving until after the fall of Vicksburg, and being twice wounded, when he was detailed as a clerk in the general hospital at Camp Nelson, soon being promoted to chief clerk, and commencing the study of medicine under Dr. A. C. Rankin, assistant surgeon in the United States Army. Here he remained till mus