. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. ^ atMont Vernon, and Pembroke academy. Ill health pre-vented his pursuing a collegiate course, and he returnedto the parental home, and the pursuits of the C( H. Stinson. PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 275 When the Grange movement was inaugurated in thestate, he became interested in the same, and early becamean active member of Stark Grange, No. 42, in whichorganization he filled the positions oflecturer and master,several terms each. In 1879, ^^ was chosen secretary ofthe State Grange, and appointed general deputy,
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. ^ atMont Vernon, and Pembroke academy. Ill health pre-vented his pursuing a collegiate course, and he returnedto the parental home, and the pursuits of the C( H. Stinson. PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 275 When the Grange movement was inaugurated in thestate, he became interested in the same, and early becamean active member of Stark Grange, No. 42, in whichorganization he filled the positions oflecturer and master,several terms each. In 1879, ^^ was chosen secretary ofthe State Grange, and appointed general deputy, hold-ing these offices four years, when he became master ofthe State Grange ; and was subsequently chosen assistantsteward of the National Grange. After three yearsof faithful service as state master, the same being signal-ized by the marked prosperity of the order throughout thestate, he resigned, his entire attention then being demandedby his increasing duties as a special agent of the UnitedStates Bureau of Labor, under Col. Carroll D. whom he had been appointed upon the organization ofthe bureau, and by whom he was continued, and placedin the ranking division upon the reorganization of thesame into t
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