The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . rister, having a strong musicaltaste, which led him in boyhood yearsinto service in a campaign glee 1867 Doctor Way married ]\IissINIartha L. Wightman of Claremont,who died in 1868. In 1882 he mar-ried Miss Mary J. Wightman, a sis-ter of his first wife. Mrs. Way incommon with her husband is lovedand respected by the community ingeneral. Before her marriage shehad taught in Stevens High School,in Bellows Falls and Rutland, Vt.,Princeton, 111., Fort Wayne, Ind., andthe Gannett Institute, B
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . rister, having a strong musicaltaste, which led him in boyhood yearsinto service in a campaign glee 1867 Doctor Way married ]\IissINIartha L. Wightman of Claremont,who died in 1868. In 1882 he mar-ried Miss Mary J. Wightman, a sis-ter of his first wife. Mrs. Way incommon with her husband is lovedand respected by the community ingeneral. Before her marriage shehad taught in Stevens High School,in Bellows Falls and Rutland, Vt.,Princeton, 111., Fort Wayne, Ind., andthe Gannett Institute, Boston. Sheis a woman of fine intellectual attain-ment, is proficient in French, Latinand Greek, and is today an enthusias-tic student in German. Yet, aboveall, she shines in her home, makingher talents and accomplishments inother lines contribute to the makingof her daily life and home all themore attractive and beautiful. Shehas in her veins the purest blood ofPuritan New England, and she in herown personality perpetuates the besttraditions of Puritan womanhood. New Hampshires Largest Town 153. Union Block—Claremonts Busiest Corner Wayside, the family home, is oneof the features of residential Clare-mont, and in its tastefully arrangedgrounds Doctor and Mrs. Way find anopportunity to keep alive that lovefor rural life innate with each. A potent factor in the prosperityof Claremont for the last three de-cades has been Hira Ransom Beck-with. Born in Lempster September28, 1852, the son of Ransom P. andEmily L. (Parker) Beckwith. hethere attended the district school inchildhood, but. after the death of hisfather, when he was eleven years ofage, his mother removed with herchildren to Claremont. Here he at-tended the Stevens High School fora time and was also for two terms atMarlow Academy, but in early youthentered the employ of the late B. ;jrilman and learned the carpenterstrade, subsequently studying archi-tecture in a Boston office. At the ageof twenty-one he formed a pa
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