. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. as not been called intothe public service as generally as might otherwise havebeen the case. He has served on the school-boardmany years, however, and was for three successive terms,or six years, a member of the board of county commis-sioners. In religion, he is a Methodist, and has been for29 consecutive years superintendent of the Sunday-school connected with that church in Marlow. While engaged in mercantile life, it should be noted,Mr. Fox took out three different patents, one of whichwas for tlie Granite State evaporator, for makin
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. as not been called intothe public service as generally as might otherwise havebeen the case. He has served on the school-boardmany years, however, and was for three successive terms,or six years, a member of the board of county commis-sioners. In religion, he is a Methodist, and has been for29 consecutive years superintendent of the Sunday-school connected with that church in Marlow. While engaged in mercantile life, it should be noted,Mr. Fox took out three different patents, one of whichwas for tlie Granite State evaporator, for making maplesugar, which has been long and favorably known. JOHN M. PRESSEY, Sutton. John M. Pressey, of Sutton, son of William and Jemi-ma W. (Bean) Pressey, was born in that town. May 11,1841, and reared on the farm originally settled in 1772by his great-grandfather, William Pressey, from Haver-hill, Mass., who was the first carpenter in town and thefirst captain of militia. This farm, though not now occu-pied, has always remained in the family, and is now. 3IO NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. owned by Mr. Pressey. At twenty years of age he en-tered the Union army as a private in the First RhodeIsland Cavahy, and served until discharged in Novem-ber, 1862, after being wounded at the Battle of FrontRoyal. Subsequently he was for two years clerk in thestore of Lewis Ricliards at Sutton Mills, then bought awood lot, and carried on lumbering operations and tradedin cattle in connection with farming. In June, 1865, hemarried Miss Electa A. Durgin of Sanbornton. Helived in Canaan four years after marriage, then returnedto Sutton and bought a farm in the western part of thetown. This he sold in 1883, and bought the old AaronRussell farm at South Sutton, where he has since resi-ded. This farm, of eighty acres, is now one of the bestin the region, having been greatly improved, while thebuildings have been extensively remodelled, rebuilt, andput in first-class condition. Milk production is the fa
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