The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . It will doubtless remain andincrease. Flere will pass at leastthe local traffic of the this road, too, during eachvacation season, there will come,as there does at present, a multi-tude of people from every sectionof our own country as well asevery quarter of the globe. It is THE DANIEL WEBSTER HIGHWAY 11/ assuredly fitting that the state no similar, evidence of another habi- shoukl dedicate this great high- ration between it and the settlements way, now properly designated and on the rivers of Canada. He
The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . It will doubtless remain andincrease. Flere will pass at leastthe local traffic of the this road, too, during eachvacation season, there will come,as there does at present, a multi-tude of people from every sectionof our own country as well asevery quarter of the globe. It is THE DANIEL WEBSTER HIGHWAY 11/ assuredly fitting that the state no similar, evidence of another habi- shoukl dedicate this great high- ration between it and the settlements way, now properly designated and on the rivers of Canada. He was suitably marked, to the memory graduated [rem the law department of him whom she gave to the of the University oi Michigan at 20 country to be its foremost lawyer, and later received the honorary degree orator and statesman. of Doctor of Laws from that insti- This occasion should not be al- tution as well as from Dartmouth lowed to pass without some tribute to college. To him belonged the unique the distinguished jurist who so ear- distinction of admission to the bar. nestly sought the legislation that liasresulted in these exercises. He washorn in the northernmost town in thestate and within a few miles of theline established by that capital achieve-ment in diplomacy, the Webster-Ash-burton treaty, lie could say of hisfathers house, substantially in thelanguage of the great statesman hedesired to honor, that when the smokefirst rose from its rude chimney andcurled over the frozen hills there was before the constitutional age of 21. For nearly 25 years he practicedhis profession with conspicuous suc-cess. For 30 years he graced thebench of the Federal Court for theDistrict of New Hampshire, devotingmost of his time, however, to the workof the United States Circuit Court ofAppeals in Boston. It is safe to saythat no judge ever administered theaffairs of the court for this districtwith greater tact, dignity and ability 28 GRANITE MONTHLY than did Edgar Atdrich. And whenupon a
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