. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. in question, and the family name has eversince applied to the location, where William was rearedand has ever had his home. He received his educationin the schools of Webster and at Boscawen Academy,and engaged in the lumber business in company withhis father. After the decease of the latter he carriedon the business alone for a time, but for some fifteenyears past his younger brother, Irving A., has been asso-ciated with him in the business, manufacturing all kindsof lumber to an amount exceeding 1,000,000 feet per an-num, the larger pr
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. in question, and the family name has eversince applied to the location, where William was rearedand has ever had his home. He received his educationin the schools of Webster and at Boscawen Academy,and engaged in the lumber business in company withhis father. After the decease of the latter he carriedon the business alone for a time, but for some fifteenyears past his younger brother, Irving A., has been asso-ciated with him in the business, manufacturing all kindsof lumber to an amount exceeding 1,000,000 feet per an-num, the larger proportion of which is fitted for pack-ing boxes for shoe and woolen manufacturers. It isthe leading manufacturing industry in the town, and themaking of the finished product, instead of shipping thelumber as it came from the saw, as was the custom informer years, adds largely to the labor required, andconsequently to the pay-roll of the firm, which is an im-portant item to the business interests of that section ofthe town. ;20 NEW HAMPSHIRE r Residence of W. W. 1jlki;a.\k, \\ij;>til1v. Mr. Burbank is an admirer of fine horses and hasraised some excellent colts. Although his agriculturaloperations are not extensive, he has some fine intervaleland which has been well cared tor and produces supe-rior hay and excellent potatoes. His interest in agricul-ture has been manitested by his active connection withagricultural organizations. He was a charter memberand the first master of Daniel Webster Grange ; waschosen master of Merrimack County Pomona Grange in1891, and was three times elected a member of the exec-utive committee of the State Grange. He was amongthe prime movers in the organization of the New Hamp-shire Grange Fair Association, and was general super-intendent of its fair tor the first four years, and president PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 321 of the association the next two, and undoubtedly de-voted more time to the interests of the association for thefirs
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