. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. ormer and twofrom the latter, which has since been his base of opera-tions. He has about forty acres in mowino- and tillacre, cuts about forty tons ofhay, has a fine dairy oftwelve or fifteen gradeJerse3s, whose productis marketed at home insummer and shipped toBoston in winter. Healso raises about twoacres of strawberries,for which crop the ho-tels furnish a readyand profitable connection with hismarket business, hehas erected a capa-cious freezing; and coldstorage house, whichgives him exceptional advantage. Mr. Bishop was u
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. ormer and twofrom the latter, which has since been his base of opera-tions. He has about forty acres in mowino- and tillacre, cuts about forty tons ofhay, has a fine dairy oftwelve or fifteen gradeJerse3s, whose productis marketed at home insummer and shipped toBoston in winter. Healso raises about twoacres of strawberries,for which crop the ho-tels furnish a readyand profitable connection with hismarket business, hehas erected a capa-cious freezing; and coldstorage house, whichgives him exceptional advantage. Mr. Bishop was united in marriage. May 11, 1885,with Miss Carrie M. Miner of Lyman, and four sonshave been born to them. He is a Congregationalist inreligion, and a Democrat in politics. He has served forfour years upon the board of selectmen in Bethlehem,having been chosen chairman of the board for the lastthree years without an opposing vote. He also repre-sented the town in the legislature of 1897-8, serving uponthe committee on railroads. He belonrrs to the Masonic. Edward E. Bishop. 356 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. fraternity, being a member of Burns lodge, No. 66, ofLittleton, and is also an active Patron of Husbandry,serving in 1897 as one of the executive committee ofBethlehem Grange, and as secretary of Northern NewHampshire Pomona Grange. He is the president of theBethlehem Fair association, a new organization, whichclaims the credit of holding the best town fair in thestate in the year 1897. WILLIAM F. WESTGATE, Haverhill. Among the best-known citizens of Haverhill, whichhas alvva3s ranked as one of the best agricultural townsin the state, is William Francis Westgate, son of the lateHon. Nathaniel W. and Louisa (Tyler) Westgate. Hewas born in the town of Enfield, July 5, 1852, butremoved with his parents to Haverhill in 1856, when hisfather, a lawyer by profession, entered upon his dutiesas register of probate for the county of Grafton, to whichoffice he had been appointed, and which
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