. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. Bennett,was with General Sullivan at the capture of the gun-powder at Fort William and Mary. Arioch W. Griffiths was born August 31, 1851. Heattended the common school, Newmarket High school,and Franklin acade-my, Dover. June , he married SadieB. McDaniel of New-market. Fhey haveone son, John H., bornSeptember 20, at Newmar-ket High school, andthe Bryant & StrattonCommercial college,Boston, and now book-keeper for the B. Co. of Newmar-ket. Like his brother,Arioch W. is a Repub-lican and belongs tothe Sons of
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. Bennett,was with General Sullivan at the capture of the gun-powder at Fort William and Mary. Arioch W. Griffiths was born August 31, 1851. Heattended the common school, Newmarket High school,and Franklin acade-my, Dover. June , he married SadieB. McDaniel of New-market. Fhey haveone son, John H., bornSeptember 20, at Newmar-ket High school, andthe Bryant & StrattonCommercial college,Boston, and now book-keeper for the B. Co. of Newmar-ket. Like his brother,Arioch W. is a Repub-lican and belongs tothe Sons of the American Revolution. He is also anassociate member of the G. A. R., and quite prominentin the order of Knights of Pythias, being a mem-ber of Pioneer lodge, No. i, of Newmarket, and wasactively instrumental in the organization of the new lodgeat Durham recently. He passed the chairs and becamea member of the grand lodge in 1891. He was a chartermember of William A. Frye Co., No. 5, U. R. Hewas for four years first lieutenant of his company and. Ario( H \V. Griffiths. 332 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. was promoted from that rank to that of major on the reg-imental staf^\ He was made lieutenant-colonel of theFirst regiment March 28, 1895, and holds the position atthe present time. He has been quite active in publicaffairs, serving as census enumerator in 1890, as select-man two years, and as road agent in 1896. SOLOMON MANNING,Bedford. A typical representative of a large class of New Hamp-shire farmers who iiave achieved success by patient in-dustry in the cultivation of the soil, is Solomon Manning,whose home is on the Bedford farm where he was born,situated about one mile from the village and five milesfrom Manchester, upon the highway leading from thatcity to Amherst. Mr. Manning is the fifth of eightchildren of Solomon and Mary (Fletcher) Manning,born August 29, 1831. He is a descendant of WilliamManning who came from England and settled in Cam-bridge, Mass., in 1635. His m
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