. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. e has alsospoken and written much upon historical and generalsubjects. Aside iVom the legislative service mentioned,Mr. Walker was a member of the constitutional conven-tion of 1889 and of the state senate in 1893-4. He wasmany years a member of the Concord school board andhas been a trustee of the New Hampshire Asylum for theInsane and secretary of the board since 1847. In reli-gion he is a Congregationalist and in politics a Repub-lican. Mr. Walker was born June 12, 1822 ; fitted for collegeat Phillips Exeter Academy ; graduated from
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. e has alsospoken and written much upon historical and generalsubjects. Aside iVom the legislative service mentioned,Mr. Walker was a member of the constitutional conven-tion of 1889 and of the state senate in 1893-4. He wasmany years a member of the Concord school board andhas been a trustee of the New Hampshire Asylum for theInsane and secretary of the board since 1847. In reli-gion he is a Congregationalist and in politics a Repub-lican. Mr. Walker was born June 12, 1822 ; fitted for collegeat Phillips Exeter Academy ; graduated from Yale in1844 studied law in Concord and at the Harvard lawschool : was admitted to the bar in 1847, and married Eliz-abeth Lord Upham, daughter of the late Hon. , May i, 1850. Their children are, Charles Al-fred Walker, M. D., of Concord; Susan Burbeen, nowMrs. Charles M. Gilbert of Savannah, Ga. ; NathanielUpham, a lawyer in Boston; Mary Bell, who died at theage of ten years ; Eliza Lord, residing at home, andJoseph Timothy, of PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 6l JAMES M. CONNOR, HOPKINTON. Of no New Hampshire farmer can it be more truthfullysaid He is the architect of his own fortune, than ofJames M. Connor of Hopkinton; and none has beenmore successful in his work, when all the circumstancesof the case are considered. Mr. Connor was born inHenniker, August 21, 1828. His father was JamesConnor, a farmer of limited means and poor health, whoremoved to Hopkinton when James M. was about fiveyears old. The only education he received was derivedfrom a few weeks attendance upon the district schooleach year before he was fourteen years of age, afterwhich time he was engaged in farm labor and carpenter-ing in this state and in New York, being engaged at thelatter trade two or three years after attaining hismajority. In 1852, he returned to Hopkinton, bought a fifty acrelot some two miles from the village, and commencedfarming on his own account. He improved the l
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