. The history of Newport, New Hampshire, from 1766 to 1878 . of Na-than Bingham, Esq., of Claremont. She died April i, 1836,leaving an infant three weeks old, which died the August fol-lowing. November 10, 1843, he married Martha Ann, daugh-ter of Capt. John Gilmore, of this town. Ralphs born Aug. 8, 1844; graduated at Norwich Univer-sity ; is a broker in Nebraska. Frances E., born Aug. 16, 1845 ; married, Jan. 22, 1867,Col. McDermid, of Chicago, 111. Benjamin B. French [see Literature, also Press] was aclerk of the court while he remained in town. He was a law-yer by profession, and practised
. The history of Newport, New Hampshire, from 1766 to 1878 . of Na-than Bingham, Esq., of Claremont. She died April i, 1836,leaving an infant three weeks old, which died the August fol-lowing. November 10, 1843, he married Martha Ann, daugh-ter of Capt. John Gilmore, of this town. Ralphs born Aug. 8, 1844; graduated at Norwich Univer-sity ; is a broker in Nebraska. Frances E., born Aug. 16, 1845 ; married, Jan. 22, 1867,Col. McDermid, of Chicago, 111. Benjamin B. French [see Literature, also Press] was aclerk of the court while he remained in town. He was a law-yer by profession, and practised to some extent while time, however, was mainly absorbed in his editorial andclerical duties. Edmund Burke. The subject of this sketch was born inthe town of Westminster, Vt, on the 23d day of January, father was a farmer, not wealthy, but possessed of a com-petency quite sufficient for the support of himself and a numer-ous family. His circumstances, however, required that heshould labor with constant industry,—the lot of most New Eng-. ?u. LA^¥YERS. 179 land farmers,—and bring his family up to the same habits ofactive toil. The subject of this notice was not exempt fromthe salutary training and discipline in the habits of robust andhealth-giving labor, from which but few of the sons of the tillersof the soil are exempt. He labored with his father, from thetime his age and strength would permit, until he was fifteenyears of age, going to the common-school of the village in ^vhichhe was born, in the summers in the tenderer years of his life,and during the winters when he had arrived at an age whenhis services were valuable and necessary upon the farm. At the age of fifteen his father, unable to give him an academ-ical education, but desiring that he should have every advan-tage in his power, to give him a respectable position in society,proposed that he should make an effort to become a member ofone of the learned professions, offering to give him his tim
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