. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. a contract for grading and building the rail-road through that town. He continued in business herefor several years, taking an active part in town served as sergeant-at-arms of the N. H. house otrepresentatives in 1855, ^s assistant clerk in 1856, andat the close of that session was appointed sheriff of Mer-rimack county for five years by Gov. Haile, removingfor the timq to Concord, where he also served as citymarshal and collector of taxes for some time. Originallya Douglas Democrat he became a Republican upon theorganizatio
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. a contract for grading and building the rail-road through that town. He continued in business herefor several years, taking an active part in town served as sergeant-at-arms of the N. H. house otrepresentatives in 1855, ^s assistant clerk in 1856, andat the close of that session was appointed sheriff of Mer-rimack county for five years by Gov. Haile, removingfor the timq to Concord, where he also served as citymarshal and collector of taxes for some time. Originallya Douglas Democrat he became a Republican upon theorganization of that part^^ and was for many 3earsintimately associated with the late Edward H. Rollinsand William E. Chandler in the management of partyaffairs. He was chairman of the Republican state com-mittee in the Lincoln campaign of i860. As chiefmarshal of the Wide Awakes in that campaign hetook 10,000 men from this state to the great Wide Awakedemonstration in Boston. At the outbreak of the Rebel-lion, while still sheriff of the county, his services were. Hon. Nehemiah G. Ordway. l68 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. called in requisition by the governor, who commissionedhim as colonel, for making arrangements to forward tothe front the first regiments raised in the state. Appointed by President Lincoln general agent of thepost-office department, and superintendent of mail trans-portation for the New England states, he fulfilled thearduous duties of his position from the spring of 1861,till December, 1862, when he resigned to accept theoffice of sergeant-at-arms of the national house of repre-sentatives at Washington, to which he was chosen at theopening of the Thirty-eighth congress, and re-elected forfive successive congresses or a term of twelve years inall, becommg personally acquainted with 1,200 repre-sentatives and senators. Meanwhile he took an active interest in public affairsin the District of Columbia, and also in business opera-tions. He was the organizer and one of the prin
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