. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. and faithfully done, and the world the better for hishaving lived. August 28, 1846, Joseph A. Whitcher married MarthaEmerson, a self-reliant woman, who had helped to sup-port her fathers large family by money earned as weaverin the Cocheco mills at Dover, to and from which shemany times walked. Martha (Emerson) Whitcherwearied not of honorable toil, and at eighty years was. Chas. W. Whitcher and Nephew. 38o NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. doing her lifes work cheerfully, uncomplainingly, everanxious for the happiness of others. No truer wife
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. and faithfully done, and the world the better for hishaving lived. August 28, 1846, Joseph A. Whitcher married MarthaEmerson, a self-reliant woman, who had helped to sup-port her fathers large family by money earned as weaverin the Cocheco mills at Dover, to and from which shemany times walked. Martha (Emerson) Whitcherwearied not of honorable toil, and at eighty years was. Chas. W. Whitcher and Nephew. 38o NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. doing her lifes work cheerfully, uncomplainingly, everanxious for the happiness of others. No truer wife, nobetter mother ever lived. Five children blessed theunion of this couple, two girls, Abbie E., and an infant,both dead, and three sons, Charles W., Joseph E., andGeorge H., all living, and who, with Harold P., son ofJoseph E., are all the male representatives of the familyof William Whitcher. Charles W. Whitcher lives on the old farm, and, thoughan invalid, is active and useful in the community. As aboy, he was an exceptionall} 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. Ge
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