. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. tead, about amile and three-fourths from Gilsum, his original pur-pose being to utilize the same as a summer resort, butthe attractions of the place proved so great that he deter-mined to make it a permanent family home, and therehas been his residence up to the present time. He hasmade great improvements on all sides, new buildingsbeing erected and old ones repaired, tlie fields cleaned upand their fertility largeh^ increased, so that it is now notonly the largest, but also one of the best-equipped farmsin town, and among the most desi
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. tead, about amile and three-fourths from Gilsum, his original pur-pose being to utilize the same as a summer resort, butthe attractions of the place proved so great that he deter-mined to make it a permanent family home, and therehas been his residence up to the present time. He hasmade great improvements on all sides, new buildingsbeing erected and old ones repaired, tlie fields cleaned upand their fertility largeh^ increased, so that it is now notonly the largest, but also one of the best-equipped farmsin town, and among the most desirable in the state. Hehas about i,ooo acres of land altogether, and his hay andensilage equal the value of 150 tons of the former, perannum. His stock averages about 100 head of cattle,altogether, thirty horses, and forty hogs. For many yearspast, indeed, the place has been wddely known as the Gilsum live stock market, from the extensive businessin the purchase and sale of stock in which Mr. Newmanhas been engaged, greatly to the convenience of his fel-. PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 353 low-farmers and others, on all sides, for mik-s are two extensive mica mines on this farm, whichhave been developed sufBciently to prove their place is also noted for the large quantity and excel-lent quality of maple sugar annually produced addition to other business, it may be added that has been extensively enp-ai^ed in lumberin<r fora number of 3^ears. Mr. Newman married, first, Sarah A. Wilder, daurfh-ter of George and Nancy Wilder, of Alstead Center,September 29, 1875. She died, beloved by all whoknew her, March 29, 1884. June 3, 18S5, ^^*^ marriedAbbie M., daughter of James A. and Susan P. Kidder,of x\lstead. They have one son, George E. Newman,Jr., a promising lad, the pride of the home, now tenyears of age, who is president of the Junior society ofChristian Endeavor, in Gilsum. Mr. Newman early interested himself in the work offraternal, ben
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