. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. r of the Grange Mutual Fire In-surance Company from the start, and its treasurer sincethe second year. In religion he is a Congregationalist;politically, a Republican. He has been prominent in townaffairs, serving as treasurer, member of the school board,chairman of the board of selectmen, and representativein 1865 and 1866. He has been a director in the Pemi-gewasset National Bank at Plymouth since its organiza-tion, and a director and vice-president of the PlymouthCreamery Association, which he was active in organiz-ing. January i, 18
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. r of the Grange Mutual Fire In-surance Company from the start, and its treasurer sincethe second year. In religion he is a Congregationalist;politically, a Republican. He has been prominent in townaffairs, serving as treasurer, member of the school board,chairman of the board of selectmen, and representativein 1865 and 1866. He has been a director in the Pemi-gewasset National Bank at Plymouth since its organiza-tion, and a director and vice-president of the PlymouthCreamery Association, which he was active in organiz-ing. January i, 1852, he married Hannah P. Cook ofCampton. They have had tliree children, of whom oneson, John M., survives. He married Laura S. Worthenof Holderness, has a daughter five years of age, andresides with his parents, the management of the farmnow being in his hands. WILLIAM W. BURBANK, Webster. As a rule the man whose leading occupation in life islumbering, or fitting for commercial uses the natural for-est product, develops a love for the soil, and a strong. William W. Bukbank, PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 319 affinity for agriculture, an occupation naturally resultingfrom, and kindred to, his own. William Wirt Burbank, of Webster, has been princi-pally occupied during his more than ordinarily busy life,up to the present time, in the business of a lumber man-ufacturer at Burbanks Mills, on the Blackwater, notfar from Corser Hill, in the northwestern part of thetown. Here he was born, September 13, 1842, a son ofFriend L. and Dorothy (Jackman) Burbank. He is adescendant of Moses Burbank, who came from Bradford,Mass., in 1733, and settled at Boscawen Plain, andwhose son, David, the great-grandfather of William W.,was a soldier in the patriot army at Bunker Hill, and anofficer under Stark at Bennington. Abraham Burbank,a son of David, and father of Friend L., engaged exten-sively in lumbering and agriculture. He built the millsat the point in question, and the family name has eversince
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