Biographical review : containing life sketches of leading citizens of Strafford and Belknap countries, New Hampshire . itt, who succeeded his father in the pos-session of the farm. Stephen Demeritt, youngest child of Israeland the next to inherit the ancestral acres, washere engaged in general farming during hislife, dying on the homestead, January 27,1867. For many years he occupied a fore-most position among the influential citizensof Durham, faithfully performing his officialduties as Selectman and as Justice of thePeace, also twice representing the town inthe lower branch of the legislatur
Biographical review : containing life sketches of leading citizens of Strafford and Belknap countries, New Hampshire . itt, who succeeded his father in the pos-session of the farm. Stephen Demeritt, youngest child of Israeland the next to inherit the ancestral acres, washere engaged in general farming during hislife, dying on the homestead, January 27,1867. For many years he occupied a fore-most position among the influential citizensof Durham, faithfully performing his officialduties as Selectman and as Justice of thePeace, also twice representing the town inthe lower branch of the legislature, and twiceserving as Senator, having been elected onthe Democratic ticket. He married Nancy,daughter of Samuel Chesley, of Durham, andthey became the parents of six children,namely: Martha J., now the wife of Edwin , of Bradford, Mass. ; Charles J., whodied August 23, 1881; Edwin, a proprietorand principal of the Chauncy Hall School, Bos-ton, Mass.; Frank, who died in South Amer-ica, while in charge of a mining expedition;Albert, the special subject of this biographi-cal sketch; and Grace A., wife of John. AMOS L. ROLLINS. BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 507 Dcmlea, an attorney-at-law in Haverhill,Mass. Tiie mother ilicd August 23, 1894, herremains being de|)()sited beside her husbanilsin the family cemetery on the farm. Although but fifteen years oUl at the timeof his fathers death, Albert Demeritt at onceassumed the management of the home farm,which he is still carrying on. It contains twohundred and fifty acres of land. The extentof his agricultural operations may be gatheredfrom the fact that he harvested in the year1896, among his other abundant crops, onethousand barrels of apples and one hundredtons of hay. Mr. Demeritt, however, does notconfine himself to a single sphere of being a practical farmer he is a seniormember of the firm of Demeritt & Burnham,extensive dealers in lumber, widely and favor-ably known. Mr. Demeritt was married June 2, 1886, toMiss l-
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