. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. now, at the age of seventy-eightyears, with his estimable wife, Hannah D., daughter ofthe late Reuben Abbott, of Concord, enjoys a respitefrom active labor. William P. Ballard is an only son, but has two sisters living. He was bornon the old farm, , 1848. He attendedthe New HampshireCollege of Agricult-ure and the MechanicArts at Hanover, fromwhich he graduated in1871, in the first classever graduating fromthat institution. OnDecember 2, 1875, ^married Mary E. Bart-lett, of Merrimack, asuccessful teacher, bywhom he has threechild
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. now, at the age of seventy-eightyears, with his estimable wife, Hannah D., daughter ofthe late Reuben Abbott, of Concord, enjoys a respitefrom active labor. William P. Ballard is an only son, but has two sisters living. He was bornon the old farm, , 1848. He attendedthe New HampshireCollege of Agricult-ure and the MechanicArts at Hanover, fromwhich he graduated in1871, in the first classever graduating fromthat institution. OnDecember 2, 1875, ^married Mary E. Bart-lett, of Merrimack, asuccessful teacher, bywhom he has threechildren living, a sonand two son was born to them, but died in infancy. Mr. Ballard was a charter member and the first secre-tary of Capital Grange, No. 113, of Concord, organizedin January, 1886; was master of the same in 1889, andhas been one of the most faithful and devoted membersfrom the start, serving two years as chaplain and at pres-ent as treasurer. He has also been an active memberof Merrimack County Pomona Grange from its organ-. WlLLIAM F. IJALLARIJ. PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 99 ization, holding the office of steward in 1890 and 1891,overseer in 1892 and 1893, and master in 1894 and 1895,and rarely being absent from his post at any was also for two years chairman of the State GrangeCommittee on the Agricultural College and ExperimentStation. He takes a lively interest in educational mat-ters, and served three years as a member of the schoolboard in what is known as the town district. In relig-ion he is a Congregationalist, being a member anddeacon of the North church in Concord. He was amember of the board of assessors from ward 9 in 1894,but has held no other public office, and has soughtnone. For the past twenty years, since assuming the activemanagement of the farm, Mr. Ballard has made the pro-duction of milk for the Concord market a specialty, keep-ing a herd of about twenty cows, on an average, whichare mostly natives. His land is we
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