. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. bitor at the fairs, and at the last stateexhibition, at Tilton, won a first prize on bull, and alsoon milch cow. A good amount of fruit is produced, andin bearing years several hundred barrels of apples aresold. Mr. Clough alsobuys apples quite ex-tensively for the mar-ket, and owns a hallinterest in the Canter-bury Store Co. ; andhere it may be saidthat he has also formany years sold agri-cultural implements ofvarious kinds, beingthe agent of the well-known Boston firm ofGeorge Tyler & in the besttools of all kinds forhis
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. bitor at the fairs, and at the last stateexhibition, at Tilton, won a first prize on bull, and alsoon milch cow. A good amount of fruit is produced, andin bearing years several hundred barrels of apples aresold. Mr. Clough alsobuys apples quite ex-tensively for the mar-ket, and owns a hallinterest in the Canter-bury Store Co. ; andhere it may be saidthat he has also formany years sold agri-cultural implements ofvarious kinds, beingthe agent of the well-known Boston firm ofGeorge Tyler & in the besttools of all kinds forhis own use, he hasthus been instrumental in furnishing superior implementsto others. Mr. Clough married, August 30, 1866, Mary E. Batch-elder, daughter of Eleazer Batchelder, of children were born to them, but both died in in-fancy. About fifteen years ago they took to their hometwo children—Katie and Henrv Gleason—ffivino- tiiem agood, practical education at the town school and TiltonSeminary. Katie is now engaged in teaching, while. Philip C. Clough. PERSONAL AND FAR INI SKETCHES. 2 23 Henry is still at home, caring for the interests ot thefarm. Mr. Clough is a member of the Congregational church,and in politics Republican. He has been several times amember of the board of selectmen in Canterbury, and twoyears chairman, and in November, 1896, was chosenrepresentative to the legislature by seventy-eiglit major-ity, though the town has ordinarily been is a member of Doric lodge, F. & A. M., of Tilton,was a charter member of Merrimack River grange, ofCanterburv, of which he has been master, and a chartermember and tirst steward of Merrimack County Pomonagrange. He was an active promoter of the Grange Statefair, and has been superintendent of ditlerent depart-ments and a member of the executive committee. He isalso president of the Canterbury & Boscawen Telephonecompany. NOAH FARR, Littleton. One of the best farms in the thriving town of Littleton,wh
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