Biographical review : containing life sketches of leading citizens of Strafford and Belknap countries, New Hampshire . thattown. Beginning in 1880, he was Treasurerof the Massachusetts Eclectic Medical Soci-ety for several years, and in 18S8 he becamethe President of that organization. Failinghealth subsequently obliged Dr. Gerald to re-linquish his extensive and lucrative practicein Hyde Park and move to the country. Atthat time he came to Belmont and settled onLadd Hill, where he has since devoted histime to farming and stock-raising, owningsome of the finest specimens of stock everraised in
Biographical review : containing life sketches of leading citizens of Strafford and Belknap countries, New Hampshire . thattown. Beginning in 1880, he was Treasurerof the Massachusetts Eclectic Medical Soci-ety for several years, and in 18S8 he becamethe President of that organization. Failinghealth subsequently obliged Dr. Gerald to re-linquish his extensive and lucrative practicein Hyde Park and move to the country. Atthat time he came to Belmont and settled onLadd Hill, where he has since devoted histime to farming and stock-raising, owningsome of the finest specimens of stock everraised in New England. In politics he affil-iates with the Republican party; but on licensequestions he is a Prohibitionist, being anactive temperance worker. He has served asModerator in town meetings, and he was amember of the Belmont School Board for fouryears. In 1896 he was elected to the Statelegislature, and will no doubt prove an ableRepresentative. The first of Dr. Geralds two marriages wascontracted in i860. By his second marriage,which was contracted in 1S74, with Lucy A.,daughter of Bowman Goodrich, of Hudson,. FRANCIS L. GERALD. BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 461 , there were three chiltlren — FlorenceN., Frank W., and Mabel. Frank is nowdeceased. IMorence is a teacher in lielniont,and Mabel is a student in the Laconia HighSchool. Dr. Gerald was the Treasurer ofForest Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Hyde Park,Mass., and he has been Recorder for sevenyears of Cyprus Commandery, Knights Tem-plars, of the same town. An esteemed memberof the Laconia Methodist church, he has beena trustee of the society for ten years, and thesuperintendent of the Sunday-school for fiveyears. «^*^» AMES C. LOCKE, a representative ofone of the oldest families in NorthBarnstead, was born here, September 7,1846, son of Jacob and Pamelia (Dow) first ancestor of the family to settle in thelocality was James Locke, great-grandfather ofthe subject of this sketch. He came from Rye,, and acquired a tra
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