The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . illiamE. Barrett, one of the most brilliantand successful newspaper men of hisday in Massachusetts, owning theBoston Daily Advertiser and theEvening Record; a former speaker ofthe Massachusetts house of represent- atives and a congressman. now lives in West Newton,Mass. The second daughter, FlorenceK., is at present in Italy. The third,Susie Daniell, is the wife of Frank of Bellows Falls, Vt.; Mary,the fourth, is with Mrs. Barrett inWest Newton, and Marguerite is thewife of S
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . illiamE. Barrett, one of the most brilliantand successful newspaper men of hisday in Massachusetts, owning theBoston Daily Advertiser and theEvening Record; a former speaker ofthe Massachusetts house of represent- atives and a congressman. now lives in West Newton,Mass. The second daughter, FlorenceK., is at present in Italy. The third,Susie Daniell, is the wife of Frank of Bellows Falls, Vt.; Mary,the fourth, is with Mrs. Barrett inWest Newton, and Marguerite is thewife of Samuel R. Upham, ]\I. D.,Claremont. The church home of thefamily is the Universalist, of whichMr. Bailey is a trustee. The familyhome, on Bailey Avenue, frontingBroad Street, is purely colonial in itsarchitecture, and exceptionally at-tractive in its every detail. Among many Vermont natives nowresident in Claremont is William , born in Reading, Vt., Jan-uary 1, 1853, the son of Alamandaand Ellen Lorette Wilkins. As achild he manifested a marked predi-lection for amateur theatricals, and. William H. Wilkins at ten years of age made a successfulappearance on the local stage. Be-coming a student at the then famousGreen Mountain Institute, later callec^Perkins Academy, at South Wood-stock, he wrote, when only seventeen 164 New Hampshires Largest Town years old, an amateur play calledRock Allen, The Orphan, or, Lostand Found. This play was pub-lished in Clyde, Ohio, and found anextensive sale, its presentation prov-ing a decided success. The AmateurTheatrical Record of Clyde, aboutthis time, speaking of Mr. Wilkins,characterized him as one of thevery few possessing the happy facultyof blending the humorous and pa-thetic in drama in a really pleasingmanner, and said : So far as he has South Woodstock. He was for thir-teen years a resident of Lebanon andfor a number of years a travelingsalesman. In 1899 he settled in Clare-mont, which has since been his an artist in cr
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