. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . ing, and was a leading spirit in : « • •• Residence of H. H. Leavitt. lishers, Mayuard, Merrill & Co. ofNew York. John E. Young, born Jan. 26,1855, graduated from Dartmouth,187s. Studied law and was ap-pointed judge of supreme court,1898. He resides at Exeter. LIBRARIES. The value of a library to thecommunity was recognized by thepeople of Stratham long before itsmaintenance was regarded as prop-erly a function of the town. It isnot easy to say when the first library A SKETCH OF ST RATH AM. 157 was established. Ther
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . ing, and was a leading spirit in : « • •• Residence of H. H. Leavitt. lishers, Mayuard, Merrill & Co. ofNew York. John E. Young, born Jan. 26,1855, graduated from Dartmouth,187s. Studied law and was ap-pointed judge of supreme court,1898. He resides at Exeter. LIBRARIES. The value of a library to thecommunity was recognized by thepeople of Stratham long before itsmaintenance was regarded as prop-erly a function of the town. It isnot easy to say when the first library A SKETCH OF ST RATH AM. 157 was established. There is a tradi-tion that the town received one as agift when it was chartered. Thismay have been the case, but if soit appears strange that there shouldbe nowhere any allusion to it in thetown records. The people did, how-ever, quite early establish associa-tion libraries, through which theysecured most of the essential benefitsof the modern public library. Thefirst of these of which the recordsstill exist, was organized Dec. 10,r793> by Nathan Wiggin, Eiiphalet. Residence of J. N. Thjrrpson. Merrill, John Dearborn, and seven-teen others. Each member paid sixshillings entrance fee and two shil-lings each year thereafter. JohnDearborn was chosen librarian, andthe books were kept at his there was- then, or hadbeen recently, another library intown, as they called theirs 4 TheStratham New Library. Six yearslater they voted to have their libraryincorporated, and very likely at thesame time united with some similarbody, as they called it thereafterthe Stratham Union Library. Thisinstitution had a useful and prosper-ous career, and was running as lateas 1822, but it was finally closed andthe books divided among the variousmembers. Many of the books are still to be found in private collectionsabout the town. It is evident fromthe specimens that exist that verylittle light literature was toleratedin those early libraries. The bookswere uniformly of a substantial
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