Life and times in Hopkinton, . d JudithCurrier, daughter of Daniel and Abigail Currier, of had children,—Willard, Moses T., Daniel C, Maria J.,Stephen. Phineas Clough died July 12, 1866; his wife, September3, 1868. Moses Tenny Clough, the son of Phineas Clough andJudith Currier, was born in Hopkinton, November 22, early life, he attended the school of Master John O. Bal-lard, but on the opening of Hopkinton academy he im-proved the opportunities of that institution. In 1830, heentered Dartmouth college, graduating in 1834. Seeking aknowledge of law, he entered the offic
Life and times in Hopkinton, . d JudithCurrier, daughter of Daniel and Abigail Currier, of had children,—Willard, Moses T., Daniel C, Maria J.,Stephen. Phineas Clough died July 12, 1866; his wife, September3, 1868. Moses Tenny Clough, the son of Phineas Clough andJudith Currier, was born in Hopkinton, November 22, early life, he attended the school of Master John O. Bal-lard, but on the opening of Hopkinton academy he im-proved the opportunities of that institution. In 1830, heentered Dartmouth college, graduating in 1834. Seeking aknowledge of law, he entered the office of Eliphaiet Pear-son, at Ticonderoga, N. Y., and subsequently that of JamesJ. Stevens, of Albany, N. Y. Being admitted to the bar in1838, he located in Ticonderoga, where he resided till 1857,and then moved to Troy, N. Y., his present place of resi-dence. Mr. Clough has been supervisor of Ticonderoga one year,assessor one year, post-master from 1845 to 1849, supremecourt commissioner four years, master in chancery five years,. Moses Tenney Clough. PERSONAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL. 339 and district-attorney of Essex county, New York, from Sep-tember, 1844, to January, 1851. In 1847, when the office ofdistrict-attorney became elective in New York, Mr. Clough,though a Democrat in politics, was chosen in a countystrongly in the majority of his political opponents. In 1851,he refused a renomination. He was at one time a directorof the Commercial Bank, at Whitehall, N. Y. William Clough, from whom Cloughville receives itsname, was a native of Hopkinton. He once lived near oron Mt. Kearsarge, where he owned 1,600 acres of land. Hewas a bridge-builder, who is said to have constructed a num-ber of bridges across the Contoocook river. He was also afarmer. He married Mary Couch, daughter of Benjamin Couch,of Boscawen. Her mothers maiden name was Clough had children,—Rachel, James Stark, Phin-eas, Benjamin C, William, Charles F. Phineas Clough, the son of William Clough and M
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