. The history of Penacook, , from its first settlement in 1734 up to 1900 . N. Y., March 15, that city he obtained his education, attending the publicschools and later on Thrall seminary. At nineteen years of agehe entered the Merchant and Custom Flouring mill of Olmsted,McDonald & Co., at Batavia, as an apprentice, and served withthat firm three years, learning the art of making flour, in whichoccupation he has continued to the present day. In 1881, aftercompleting his apprenticeship, he went to Buffalo, N. Y., and tooka position in the new six hundred and fifty barrel flour mill
. The history of Penacook, , from its first settlement in 1734 up to 1900 . N. Y., March 15, that city he obtained his education, attending the publicschools and later on Thrall seminary. At nineteen years of agehe entered the Merchant and Custom Flouring mill of Olmsted,McDonald & Co., at Batavia, as an apprentice, and served withthat firm three years, learning the art of making flour, in whichoccupation he has continued to the present day. In 1881, aftercompleting his apprenticeship, he went to Buffalo, N. Y., and tooka position in the new six hundred and fifty barrel flour mill ofEsser, Ogden & Co., and two years later he accepted a similar 426 HISTORY OF PENACOOK. position at the flour mill of Stratton, Merrill & Co., at Penacook,where he began work in July, 1883. In this place he served hisemployers so acceptably that in 1891 he was advanced to theposition of foreman, a very responsible and exacting office. Inother lines aside from business Mr. Mattice has an active interestand leading position. He is an ardent Republican in politics,. Edson H. Mattice. being a very effective worker in the town organization, and in1894 was elected a member of the State Central much interest in the school system, he was chosen amember of the board of education in 1898 for a three years Mattice took his first three degrees in Masonry in HoraceChase lodge, No. 72, and soon advanced through the severaloffices to the worshipful masters chair to which he was elected SERGT. HALE CHAD WICK. 427 twice. He has also taken the chapter and council degrees inMasonry at Concord. He is a member of Contoocook lodge, , I. O. O. F., and serving as noble grand at the present Mattice was married in April, 1893, to Jeanette Abbott Gage,daughter of Calvin Gage, one of the most prominent citi-zens of the village. They have two sons, Russell Chandler andRichard Gage Mattice, and the family are regular attendants atthe Congregational church. SERGT. HAL
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