Biographical review .. containing life sketches of leading citizens of Merrimack and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire . dshingles at the rate of fifty cents per thousandand board, sawing day-times and bunchingnights. The ensuing spring he began buyingand manufacturing lumber, buying at first buta few trees at a time, gradually enlarging hisoperations; and in 1842 he had cleared abovehis expenses nine hundred dollars. Mr. Dowthen bought one-half interest in the NathanielA. Davis saw-mill, mortgaging it to securepayment, and running into debt for theCharles Davis siiingle-mill. lie worked in-dus
Biographical review .. containing life sketches of leading citizens of Merrimack and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire . dshingles at the rate of fifty cents per thousandand board, sawing day-times and bunchingnights. The ensuing spring he began buyingand manufacturing lumber, buying at first buta few trees at a time, gradually enlarging hisoperations; and in 1842 he had cleared abovehis expenses nine hundred dollars. Mr. Dowthen bought one-half interest in the NathanielA. Davis saw-mill, mortgaging it to securepayment, and running into debt for theCharles Davis siiingle-mill. lie worked in-dustriously, saved every penny possible, andfour years later had both mills paid continued his investments in lumber,bark, and wood until 1857, when he disposedof his Ijuildings to W. S. Davis for nine hun-dretl dollars, and sold his mills to DanielMilton. Ill the same year he erected a resi-dence at a cost of thirty-seven hundred the Rebellion, when the draft came toraise the town quota for the Eleventh NewHampshire Regiment, he had just passed theage limit; but he voluntarily gave five dollars. SAMUEL H. DOW. i;i<»(;k AiiiKAl, IAIIAV 3 to e;icli Vdliinlccr recruit, thus paying out overtwo liuiulrcil ami lifty dollars. The Select-iiRTi icfusin<( to pay the town ])ounty, not hav-ing been so instructed by vote, he, in companywith {ranklin Simoiuls, Joshua George,Stepiicn Ikirtlett, and George Jones, signedbonds to protect the soldiers, whom the townofficials subsequently jiaid by borrowingtwenty-seven hundred dollars, which Mr. Dowhad lying in the Warner Hank. When tliisbank suspended, he had on de[K)sit some four-teen thousand dollars, which he invested inthe l-irst National Savings ]5ank of Concord, About this time Mr. IJow purchased a largetract of wood and timber land in I^ast Canaan,and for several years did an extensive busi-ness in getting out lumber, running mills,etc. lie bought large lots of land in other lo-calities, chietiy in Canaan an
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