. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. good scholar and attendedPittsfield academy with a view to obtaining a collegeeducation, but sickness compelled the abandonment ofthis plan. In politics, he is a Democrat, and has been amember of the board of education many times, and hasalso taught many terms ot school in his native town. For a year he wasthe clerk of the NewHampshire Experi-ment station at Han-over, under his broth-er. Prof. George Joseph E. Whitcheris now the main de-pendence of the fam-ily, in managing thefarm and building upthe herd of thorough-bred Ayr
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. good scholar and attendedPittsfield academy with a view to obtaining a collegeeducation, but sickness compelled the abandonment ofthis plan. In politics, he is a Democrat, and has been amember of the board of education many times, and hasalso taught many terms ot school in his native town. For a year he wasthe clerk of the NewHampshire Experi-ment station at Han-over, under his broth-er. Prof. George Joseph E. Whitcheris now the main de-pendence of the fam-ily, in managing thefarm and building upthe herd of thorough-bred Ayrshire cattle,now the chief sourceof income. He re-JosEPH E. Whitcher. ^^-^^.^^ ^ g^^^j educa- tion at Coes academy. He is a Democrat, yet hecares little for political matters. He is a member of the. PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 381 Grange and an Odd Fellow, with a host of friends andfew enemies. He married Abbie D. Perkins of Straf-ford. They have two children, Harold P., whose por-trait is shown with his Uncle Charles, and Alice. Jo-seph E. Whitcher is one of New Hampshires bestfarmers. PROF. GEORGE H. WHITCHER, youngest son of Joseph A. and Martha Whitcher, wasborn Nov. 23, i860, and attended school at Coes acad-emy in 1S76, and Pittsfield academy in 1877. In August,1878, he entered the Freshman class of the Agriculturalcollege at Hanover, and graduated in 1881, having ledhis class, taking the Smyth prize for best essay. He re-turned to the farm for a year, and then engaged in themanufacturing business in Massachusetts. In Decem-ber. 1883, he was chosen superintendent of the collegefarm at Hanover, assuming control in March, 1884. InApril, 1885, he was chosen professor of agriculture, be-ing the first to occupy that chair. On Feb. 22, 1888,Professor Whitcher was chosen director
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